Tellico, visiting the grave

#1
Coming In on Davis Creek Road
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Where the Paystation Used to be
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In front of the old parking lot/unloading area, they turned it back into a hillside
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The old exit to Upper 2
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Trail 4
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There are many places like this where they straightened out the curvy road
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This is where they are reconstructing some of the switchbacks...sediment? what sediment...
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More to come.
 
#3
i thought reduced erosion and silt build up in rivers? oh wait they do :shaking: democrats got jealous their prius couldn't go down the trails, so they made an even larger footprint in the environment.
 
#7
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Here you can see what is still available. Coming up from the bottom right of the map is davis creek road/ trail 1.

A - The sharp corner in Trail 1, The end of Upper 2 Trail
B - The farthest Back into Upper 2 you can drive from the end
C - The Left turn after the Bridge onto Beaver Dam Road that goes by the Top of Lower 2 and leads to the beginning of Upper 2
D - The end of Beaver Dam Road where you turn left to upper 2 or right to Beaverdam Bald. (from what I remembered, I thought the right turn used to be gated)
E - The farthest you can drive into Upper 2, right at the bottom of the ledges
F - The fields at Beaverdam Bald, there are 4 total I think, pretty cool place.

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you can see what Upper 2 looked like on the trail map here
 
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#15
so judging by the pictures the best trail system in the southeast no longer requires a transfer case
essentially, yes

So what is the purpose of these roads now? Access for loggers or what?
hunters, we saw probably 20 trucks up there tracking dogs, these roads let them get to more of the forest. As we were coming down from the end of upper 2 there was a pickup going up, and he asked us if it connected because he had a dog on the other side of the ridge he was trying to get to. He had seen us earlier in the day on the other side so he thought we had come across.
 
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Upper 2 from the backside coming off trail 1


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The biggest rock obstacles left at tellico are at tellico Cabins, and they have cleared out most of them

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Clemson Offroad Club Representing almost 10 years later!!!




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RIP Tellico
 

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#19
Here is a picture of the ledge on upper 2, i'm still trying to find a good far back shot that compares to what I took last weekend

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Is that Kirby?

I've been thinking about this for a while, but seeing all of this is making it worse. I had one chance to go to Tellico with a few guys from Explorer Forum and passed it up, so never got there. With other places closing all around, I want to get to as many places as possible before they're all gone... I can't go to Grey Rock because I'll have family in town, so it looks like I'll never make it there. River Rock was so close, and never went...
 
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I don't think that was Kirby. If it is someone please say so we can make fun of him for having 2 boner bars on his jeep at once.:flipoff2: But Yea I don't think it is him.
 
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