Coot’s Lake Trail Hike

Hiked yesterday from Coot’s Lake in Rockmart to McPherson Church Rd which is a total of 6.35 miles.  I called a hike on farcebook and I had a total of five respond but 3 had to call out at the last minute.  The Copeland’s had a sickness running through the family, one of them types where if one child gets it then it makes the rounds until everyone in the family has it and Robert said that the was the last that wasn’t down with it, yet.  But family and especially children comes first and There’ll be other times for the Copeland’s to join in.  Wonderbread, I think he just wimped out.

The hike did consist of Amy Parkham, Jeff Sheppard, and me and we met at the truck stop at the Moreland exit.  They followed me and I followed the GPS on the fasted route.  All went well until it had me turn off on a road I wasn’t familiar with and then it was like being in “Deliverance”.  I turn off the radio because I defiantly wanted to hear the banjo music, it’s a first warning, and be able to speed off in time.

I dropped my truck at McPherson Church Rd and road with Amy & Jeff to Coot’s lake.  Took some pictures of us starting off and then away we went.  The trees had dropped all their leaves by this time so it was bare but we were able to see quite a long ways from the trail.  I was able so see items, scenery that I haven’t seen before.  Jeff suggested that I need to do a winter walk of the whole trail.  We found a cave, it was a small one and we checked it out.  It only went back about 10 feet and I was able to see the back without going into it.  The floor was dusty, and I suspect that that coyote that I saw stalking the cat may have made its den in it.  I’ve been told that coyotes like dusty areas as a way to keep themselves deflea.  The dust can actually kill the fleas by cutting off the air supply to them.

We saw an abundance of squirrel, a few cyclist, but no other wild life, (I consider cyclist “wild life”).  We did spend some time taking pictures in the Brushy Mountain Tunnel before going the last 4 miles of the hike.  Amy & Jeff did get to see a recline bicycle, I think that’s was a first for them. 

At one spot we came upon where tires had been dropped off below the ridge line and then later came upon a refrigerated display case that had been dumped.  It was kind of a mystery to me about these things until I thought that those items had probably been there before the trial was put in.  We also bits and pieces of the old trestles that were left behind and four pillars that looks like they could have been part of the foundation of something when the trail still passed through there.

All in all it took us about 2 ½ hours to make the walk.  And after retrieving Amy’s car at Coot’s lake we decided to eat lunch at a Taco Bell in Hiram, after a detour to find out that Pizza Farm doesn’t open until 4:30 on Sundays.