by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
For our first, full day of hiking from Ducktown, TN, we head south through McCaysville, GA on Highway 5. It’s a crooked road, the scenery beautifully bucolic and the traffic nonexistent. We are blessed with a partly cloudy, cool day with no rain forecast....
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Named after Cherokee, Chief Duck, Ducktown was the center of the US “Copper Basin’s” mining operations from 1847 until 1987. A vast area was stripped of trees for burning copper ore in outdoor sheds, which released acid that scorched the remaining...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Saturday (3-10-2021) was overcast and cool, but the previous two days in the 70s left us with the urge to get out and explore. Limiting drive time to one hour, we chose Salisbury, NC and drove north up I-85. Ya just never know, until you go when you take off on a...
