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Post by caretaker on Aug 29, 2009 19:51:56 GMT -6
Don`t know haven`t been there in a while. that`s Misty in the pic beside the falls.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 29, 2009 19:54:26 GMT -6
Sure is some where in there I took a gravel road and came out some where different! Did not know where I was at. If you hit the road maybe a couple of miles from the beginning that'a Rich Mountain road and comes out near Townsend. The roak road at the back of the cove about half way is Parsons Branch. It comes out on hi-way 129 known by bikers as The Dragon. You'd know it real quick. It's pave but very, very sharp curves and you pass a lake on the Tennessee side. Parsons Branch last I heard was closed. Every bad flood takes it out.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 29, 2009 19:57:52 GMT -6
Don`t know haven`t been there in a while. that`s Misty in the pic beside the falls. First time I saw the picture I thought it was at Tellico. There's a falls down there as big as Abrams right on the side of the road on the road out of Tellico Plains going up the mountain. North River I think but not 100% sure on that.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 30, 2009 14:48:04 GMT -6
Falls in Tellico area is Bald River falls. Very accessible even from your car window. It's in Jefferson National Forest above the town of Tellico Plains. I said North River because I used to camp there. But I asked my dad and he knew which one for sure was the falls.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 30, 2009 21:44:00 GMT -6
I will have to go check it out when we're there again. Sounds like a beautiful place.
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Post by ibugly on Aug 31, 2009 0:37:51 GMT -6
I will have to go check it out when we're there again. Sounds like a beautiful place. I usually go down I-75 below Lenior City to the Sweetwater exit and go left. Go towards Madisonville then Tellico Plains. It's a long drive even from Knoxville maybe an hour and a half or so. It's like being in The Smokies minus the heavy traffic. Some fairly good campgrounds both full service like Indian Boundary and some primitive ones like in the North River section. It's not near as restrictive rules wise as the park is. The national park can nail you for taking out a pebble. Last time I was down there about 7-8 years ago me and dad manhandled a huge quartz rock into my van. I reckon it weighed a couple hundred pounds or more. We used the wheelchair lift to get it in. Then we dumped it in someone we knew front yard as a prank when we got back home.
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Post by sksfordman on Aug 31, 2009 10:20:42 GMT -6
It hate to hear about the nailing you for pebble stealing, we have been going down backroads for a long time picking up small rocks, usally something my wife or the kids could pick up, and taking one rock from the state we visit and then place them in my wifes flower garden in front of our porch. The kids can tell you where most of them came from. I can't!
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Post by ibugly on Sept 1, 2009 22:10:07 GMT -6
The big rock we got ended up at Caretaker's brothers front yard. He lived in my old trailer at my mom and dads place. Not to be out done he busted it up and made arrowheads. If sometime in the future someone wanders by looking for chippings of an old Indian village they gonna be very confused.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 1, 2009 23:26:35 GMT -6
lol
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