Cloudland Canyon

So, for this adventure we decided we wanted to go to Cloudland Canyon which is in Rising Fawn, Ga aka the middle of mt. nowhere! It's about an hour and a half from where we started.

As always on Fridays, we stopped for IHOP before we set out on our way. It's starting to get really cool in the mornings so it was fantastically cool when we began our little journey. I love fall weather. Anyway, once you reach the state park you have to pay $5 to park as usual at a state park. They also have a place to camp and a little pond you can fish in and even cottages. Once we parked, you can walk to the overlook and look out into the canyon and see just how far down you get to walk. But, the canyon was absolutely beautiful and seemed to go on forever! So we set out on our way and for anyone thinking about going here, you walk down what felt like a million steps. There are two falls down at the bottom, one goes really far down into the canyon and the other has less steps. We went to the one that went farther down into the canyon, but we didn't go down to where we could face the waterfall so I could take a picture. Then, we walked all the way back up and went to the other waterfall. Not many people were going to that one so we had the place all to ourselves. One thing is for sure, that was one heck of an exercise and my legs hurt for three days after so keep that in mind! Ok, picture time!!!

                   My big ol' grizzly bear found himself a cave. Such a funny grizzly bear XD

               This huge rock jutted out over a little bench where some dude was taking a break.

           And there was an awesome hornet's nest way up on the huge rock but it looked damaged.

Adventure buddy wanted to touch all the fuzzy caterpillars there were. They were all over the place and on the hand rails to where, if you didn't watch where you were putting your hand, you would touch a fuzzy caterpillar.

                                                     So many steps. Alllllll of the steps.

                                      It looked like a big foot footprint! BIG FOOT LIVES!!!!

                   Adventure buddy taking a picture of the big foot footprint. He facebooked it....

 We also found a persimmon tree and did the little seed test. If you haven't heard about this test here is how it goes: You take a persimmon seed and cut it in half (easier said than done) and on the inside there will be a shape. There are three shapes that you can find: a spoon, a fork or a knife. The spoon means that you will have a winter with a lot of snow, so much that you will have to "shovel" thus the spoon. The fork means that you will have a mild winter with just a light dusting of snow. The knife means that you will have a very cold winter "like a knife cutting through you." I do believe that this is a spoon.....fantastic.

Well that was our adventure for the week. I hope you enjoyed our pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them. I found a book on amazon earlier this week called Weird Georgia and I ordered it, it has all kinds of weird places to travel and things to do in the state of Georgia so we're going to go through it and find some things that we want to do. I also have a list of places I want to go so even though it's getting colder our adventures have just begun! So sit back and have fun with us!

Come On Get Higher!

Friday the Adventure Buddy and I went to Brasstown Bald. Up until last week I had never heard of this place but apparently it's the highest point in Georgia with an elevation of 4783'!!! Now from where we're at it was about a 2 hour drive but it is through the beautiful mountains of North Georgia so it was all good. Now, when you get there it's $5 per person instead of just $5 to park (which we thought was a rip off but whatever) and then they either have a shuttle that will take you to the top or they have a paved trail that you can walk. We decided that we were going to walk the trail because we're adventurers! It's about six tenths of a mile up the mountain which is not normally a bad walk....except this is a straight up the mountain walk. Most of this trail was crazy elevated, duh...highest point in Georgia and all. But we made it...after having to stop SEVERAL times to let the calf muscles have a break and to catch our breath. But once you get to the top there's an observation deck where you can see all the surrounding mountains and you're up above the clouds and it was so beautiful! Then they also have a little museum type thing where you can walk around and chill out before you head on back down. All in all it was a fun trip. Here are some pictures from Brasstown Bald, GA:

    This is the part of the trail that we had just walked up. There was a little bench at the top.

                        This is the trail that we still had left to climb. All I could say was ugggggh.

                                                             The observation tower.

                                                               Inside the museum.

                 Adventure buddy found some of his own kind!!! (we always call him a big ol' bear)

             There were no footprints to stand on! How are you going to tell me to stand on them?!?!

                                                     Never heard of this brand of cola.

Once we left Brasstown, we had every intention of heading back home but we saw a sign for Helen, Ga and decided to make a detour for beer and brats. Before we got there, we found this awesome little creek to play in before we continued on. I didn't take many pictures in Helen but it was Octoberfest and it was fun. We ate at the beer gardens(??) and had some yummy bratwurst and beer. All in all it was a fantastic trip!

This is at the little creek we found. 

And this is the Chattahooche river that flows through Helen, GA. ...this was the only picture I took there... -____-

Well I hoped you enjoyed our trip as much as we did! I wish I had taken more pictures in Helen but I was tired by that point (I had worked all night and we left straight from work!) On to the next adventure!!!!