Thursday, October 23, 2014

So it's been almost a month....

It's been almost a month since I posted anything. I know, I'm sorry -____- I suck. Lately the adventure buddy and I haven't had much time to go adventuring. Sometimes, adventure time takes a back seat to real life. We've also been working on becoming more than just adventure buddies. :D It's been a little weird considering I'm literally HALF his age but eh what are you going to do? Anyway, that's not the point of this post. Last Friday we went for a little ride and somehow found our way to Fort Mountain! (Don't ask me how because I have no idea, this is why I don't do the driving!!!) So we decided to hit up the state park and see what it had to offer. Our first stop was at the little information center/store which they called The Trading Post. They had some interesting things, mostly things dealing with bears. I wish I had been able to take a picture of some of the things they had but I didn't get to take many pictures inside. Here's what I did get:




After we finished playing around inside we hit the road to find the trails. Apparently they have two different trails to hike, one is only about a mile and the other is eight miles....we chose the mile one. This trail leads up to the overlook and the tower they have at the top. Since it's finally becoming fall in Georgia, it was a little cool on the mountain and I'm the goober that brought shorts so I shivered the entire hike up to the top. As far as adventure hikes go, this was by far our easiest one to date. When we got to the tower, they were doing some work on it and you couldn't get to it which is probably something they should have told you before you hiked all the way up there but eh whatever, I still got pictures. 

This is the tower at the top. It's supposedly a fire watch tower build by the "moon-eyed" indians. There's a whole story about that in two of the pictures a little further down. 


Adventure buddy brought a walking stick and since we couldn't go up to the tower he decided he was going to play baseball with the nuts on the ground....

                                                      The view from the overlook.






                     The story of the tower and the "moon-eyed" people that supposedly built it.



All in all it was a nice little adventure that didn't take too long. If you go on this hike, beware! There are plenty of rocks and roots to trip over on the trail and face plant. Luckily nothing like that happened to us (knock on wood! I don't want to jinx myself for our next adventure.) But if you're up for a nice little walk I highly suggest this one, especially during the fall when all the leaves are starting to change color. It was very beautiful. 


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