by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Jun 6, 2022 | Hiking, Tennessee, Travel, Water Falls
Thursday (6-2-22) we traveled to Manchester, TN to visit with Karen’s niece Savana and meet her new husband Josh for the first time. The young couple were on leave from the Navy base in San Diego, CA spending time with Josh’s parents near Nashville....
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 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.”