Photographs and commentary by Dick Snoke
I went alone to explore the section of the trail that had been close due to storm damage earlier this year. The section I really wanted to get to, the boardwalk not far from the fishing pond, is still closed, with a temporary detour…
The first good sunrise is quite some time. The lake is down so there is more shoreline to work with, but the only available spots within reasonable driving time have very little vegetation along the shore. So ya work with what ya get.
A selection of pictures from two hikes in early October. The first was at Island Ford along the Chattahoochee River. The second was at Pine Log Creek out west of Waleska, GA. The weather for the Island Ford hike was sunny and quite hot….
A hike with the Hearthstone Hikers from the Pigeon Hill lot south to Cheatham Hill vial the Hardage Mill trail, returning by the Noses Creek trail. It was a hot and humid day or we might have gone further.
These pictures are not in the order I took them. For some reason unknown, the software will not order them as I wish.
The Sonny Day Hikers ventured to a part of the AT we had not hiked before. The first mile (up to the falls) is shared by the AT and Benton-MacKaye trails. After a break at the falls, we stayed on the AT for a…
Some of us from the North Georgia Photography Club traveled to Lake Rutledge to attempt to photograph the Milky Way. We arrived before sunset and were rewarded with some excellent reflected light in the clouds and water. The clouds stayed until about 2:00 am,…
An exploratory hike by the Sonny Day Hikers turned out to be a very nice hike. The original intent was to turn around at the top of Deadennen Mtn, but most of the group chose not to go that far. The climb of Wilscot…
A brief visit to the falls with visiting family. We hiked as far as the bottom of the steps, then drove to the West Ridge Trail to see the upper part of the falls, then had lunch at the lodge. Not the best day…
A mixed bag of images from the last two weeks of August 2019. I was not shooting much, both because of the heat/humidity, the harsh light of mid-summer days and a lot of other things to do. So this is what I got. As…