by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 20, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 16, 2022 | Hiking, Hiking, Tennessee
Stringer’s Ridge is a 20-minute drive from our house, making it an easy choice for an “Urban-Wilderness Hike.”
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 10, 2022 | Events, Tennessee, Travel
Karen and I have passed this lookout, with a sweeping view of the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, dozens of times going and coming from day trips to hike waterfall trails in the far eastern portion of the Appalachian Mountains. This was the first time we stopped. On...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | May 6, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee, Water Falls
100-foot Julia Falls is inaccessible on foot. Flowing from a sheer bluff on the side of a vast canyon in the Tennessee River Gorge, a way to hike to the cataract remains uncharted. Just minutes from downtown Chattanooga, Signal Mountain is a maze of crossing roads,...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
In South Pittsburg, TN they celebrate with a full week of cornbread-related activities, culminating in the big bash downtown on the last full weekend each April. We joined the festivities on Sunday (4-23-22) and sampled some of the finest cornbread I’ve ever...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 24, 2022 | Hiking, Travel, Water Falls
After our visit to Gibbs Gardens (4-20-22), we spent the night in Dahlonega, GA. We departed the “Gold City” early for the 45-minute drive to the Raven Cliff Falls Trailhead and were the first car to arrive in the small parking lot of one of...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 23, 2022 | Travel
Karen needed a flower fix and the meager smattering of blooms we encountered during our mountain hikes were not enough. We took off to Ball Ground, GA to tour Gibbs Gardens’ 336-acres of meticulously-manicured gardens among meandering creeks, ponds and lakes,...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Apr 4, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee
By definition, a Vortex is a place where people have reported feeling powerful forces of energy and connectivity to their spirituality, typically located near an interesting rock formation. We set off in search of Vortex Falls and found a “VORTEX.”
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Mar 31, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee, Water Falls
The North Chickamauga Creek Gorge is nine miles from our home and a work in progress. The powerful Creek is 32-miles long, a main tributary to the Tennessee River and cuts deeply through the sandstone of Walden’s Ridge. A hodgepodge of rough and tumble trails...
