Trip Report-Upstate SC Fall Hang Nov 11-13, 2011

[carolinasbackpacker]

Had a great weekend with great temps. First time for me to camp and hike on the Chatooga Trail. Lots of opportunities for hammockers all along the river and the scenery is just spectacular . It was nice being close (under 1.5 miles) the trailhead to setup a base camp which allowed WFR and I to eat well. Grilled Mojo Chicken Wings on Fri night, sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast on Sat, and pesto shrimp over angel hair pasta Sat night.

It was good to meet Riddler, futbolfreak08, Hooch, Carolinasbackpacker, GrizzlyHackle, Floorman, Chance, and Half-Hitch. Always good to hang with Swampfox, ChickenWing and his two daughters Kryptonite and Donkey Kong, and WFR. Sorry if I am missing anyone, going off of memory. Riddler took advantage of the cool Saturday to demonstrate his masterful skills flyfishing and landed a good size trout , one worthy of keeping and enjoying for dinner later that night. Around noon, Chickenwing, Kryptonite, Donkey Kong, futbolfreak08, WFR, and I decided to trek out to find the elusive "rock" About 15 minutes into our hike we learned that Hooch and Carolinasbackpacker were also in search of the mythical creature. As we continued on our hike we past several hikers on different occasions that said we were about 15 minutes away. This became our standing joke... we will always be 15 minutes away . Finally, we walked upon Hooch and Carolinasbacker and EUREKA! They found it! 3 parts to the find, hopefully I have this correct otherwise Carolinasbackpacker can correct this, we found Elicott Rock designating the NC/GA border (as scribed on the rock), we found the Commisioners Rock identifying the LAT/LONG of the corner of SC, GA, NC (), and the USGS survey marker located on a boulder in the middle of the river. After the BIG find, we headed back down the trail and stopped for lunch along the river. Kryptonite and Donkey Kong (ChickenWing's 2 daughters) did great throughout the hike. Gotta give credit to Donkey Kong, she wanted to bet me for my dinner that she could get her dad to carry part of the way back. Good thing I thought better about making that bet, she's got dad all figured out .

Finished off a great trip with the traditional stop at Pappas & Beer in Greenville. Great mexican and a nice big tall frosty Dr. Pepper. (What? I was driving )

I know. . . pics are coming as soon as I get them downloaded. Trying to get caught up on the all the football I missed over the weekend. And just to clarify. . . FSU was REPRESENTED! . . . Didn't see any wild tiggers in the piney woods and I guess it was too cold for the yellow jackets to be out. Ok, and congrats to the tiggers on their win over Wake Forest. ACC Atlantic winners. Guess as the saying goes, there will always be next year

Pics coming soon. . .

Yep I believe that's pretty much Right. I think the marker in the middle of the river is where the 3 actually meet so if you were to get out there you could theorectically stand in 3 states at once but that water was tid bit too cold this time around for that

Great meeting you guys this weekend... Look forward to doing it again.. Should have pics and video up tomorrow some time if not tonight.

Jeremy

P.S. There was one Tiger in the woods! ME!

[Terry_Dodson]

Yep I believe that's pretty much Right. I think the marker in the middle of the river is where the 3 actually meet so if you were to get out there you could theorectically stand in 3 states at once but that water was tid bit too cold this time around for that

The water was moving too fast for me to try to get to it without a good rope and backup

[futbolfreak08]

this trip was a blast. sorry i didn't make it to Papa's. I got home and found out we were going out for my mom's birthday. you can't skip out on your mother's birthday. anyways, it was great to meet all y'all. i hope i can meet up with y'all again at the next SC hang. Goat island anyone? i wanna try the low country boil.