Today's hike is with the Thursday Hikers of Knoxville. I've been hiking vicariously with them for a couple years receiving weekly accounts of their hikes from a fellow, Gary Anderson, I met wandering around White Oak Sink a couple years back.
Dwight McCarter led today's wander. We began at Metcalf Bottoms hiking the Curry Mountain Trail.
Once at the junction of Meig's Mountain Trail, we ventured off trail down a drainage. Within 200 yards we encountered the wood cooking stove in the creek. According to Dwight, the CCC boys were instructed by the Park Superintendent to pull over the chimneys with mules and hide the stoves and metal bed frames in the Rhododendron. Dwight is a great resource for these things but you do have wade through the tall tales and outright fibs he's known to tell.
We located 3 old chimneys and a fourth one was located by a few in the group. Several of the homesites had stainless steel markers by them indicating whose home it had been. Local folks with family ties are said to be responsible for these markers.
Most of the walk today was in cove hardwoods as seen here. We managed to get back just before the rain began.
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