LOOP HIKE ON BLOOD MOUNTAIN, GA
On April 5, 2006 members of the Five Forks Walking Club took a 5.5 mile loop hike to the 4461' summit of Blood Mountain, the highest elevation on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. Traveling south on US 19/129 through Blairsville to a parking area just north of Neel's Gap, we took the connector trail 0.7 mile to junction with AT and then hiked west on AT 1.4 miles to summit with its historic trail shelter built by the CCC in the 30's. From the summit we again walked west on AT for another 0.8 miles to junction with the 1.8 mile Freeman Trail.
We hiked east on the Freeman Trail, below the summit of Blood Mountain on a rocky path, reaching the junction of the AT and the Connector Trail, then back to parking area for a total of 5.5 miles.
It took us 5 hours plus to travel this distance because we met at least 50 others on the trail, many of them THRU-HIKERS just beginning their journy to Maine. It seemed we had a long conversation with each group we met!
Blood Mountain is only 28 miles from the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
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