Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Panther Creek Trail, Ga

Dunno why its called by this name but who cares....
Company: Sydney, Shelly, Bryn, Toasty, Gabby
this trail starts off and passes under 100 ft width of highway and then its pure adventure.... the trail itself isnt so steep both ways but its build mostly along the panther creek so takes wierd levels of difficulty if too wet...
Oh btw toasty and gabby are shelly and bryrnt's she dogs... gabby is a tiny jack russel cross ...and toasty is a big dog...
toasty would climb the slopes and get into the creek and do crazy stuff and little gabb would follow her ... and get stuck ...and would look at u with "oh my god... what have i done" kind of a look... but wud never give up chasing toasty....
which is when i realized how much the pet dogs miss being free...
once when gabby was stuck..toasty went up to guide her back to the trail... that was a very nice gesture and at other times toasty wud grab gabby by her neck and bully her... all so human .... it was nice to note how they behave when we let them free

and there was river dancing, sydney-shelly's wresling, wonderful strangers and their dogs and hikers with cruches.... man it was quite interesting all the way...then finally after 2 hours we reached Mill Shoals Falls (below).
The water was damn cold ... we ate some stuff and headed back..reaching just in time b4 sunset

I liked this trail for its natural settings... most of the trail was made because of natural ridges along the hill and it had loads of stuff like huge vertical drop offs, trees fallen across the stream , trees blocking the trail ... strange mix of trees with leaves on one side of the creek and trees stripped of leaves on the other side.... but sadly no birds/ animals/ reptiles/insects

If u wanna try it out : http://georgiatrails.com/trails/panthercr.html