Cheaha loop

[Woody]

In light of the weather forecast of HOT, I think my Dad and I are going to change our plans for a 2 or 3 day hike from taking place in the Sypsey Wilderness to some of the side trails around Cheaha State park. We want something between 5-8 miles per day and we can go either one night or two. I was thinking of doing the Cave Creek Trail down to the connector trail for the Pinhoti and taking the Pinhoti back to the parking area. I think this will be about 10 miles but the going will be pretty challenging and HOT. What do you think? Other ideas?

[Graceless]

we went up there yesterday and checked out the water situation and it was a good 10 deg cooler as soon as we got into the forest. plus the evening breezes where just plain cool! ie: rolling up windows and turning on a little heat for kiddos.

[Woody]

That is what I am looking for! It is settled now!

[ednotmilkman]

woody,

If you find the going easier and cooler, you can extend this loop out into a 2 nighter by going out the Cave Crk then turning left/east on the Nubbin Crk trail to the end and doing a road walk down to the High Falls trailhead and back on the Odum scout trail back to the Cave Creek (shorter) or continue west over to the Pinhoti and the better views like McDill Overlook, and be looking for the plane wreck! There is always a chance you could shorten the roadwalk with an upward extended thumb, too.

I did this over the 4th of July and even then wasn't too hot, but I hiked with plenty of bug spray and no shirt. I walked fast enough to make it in 2 full days and camped at the bottom of the higher of the High Falls.

Let me see if I can find the distances :

Nubbin Crk 3.0 total
Odum  4.6 (Total to Pinhoti)
Pinhoti 5.8 (section from Cheaha Trlhd to Odum)
Cave Crk 4.9 (from Cheaha trlhd to Nubbin Crk)
Road walk 5.6 (south on nubbin crk gravel rd, then R-S on cr31, there is a restaurant at this intersection,
then R-W on Clairmont Springs rd, then R-N on the forest service rd high falls rd to the trailhead)


these are my gps tracks, but they should be fairly reliable - i didn't lose signal or forget to turn it on I don't think.

[Cuffs]

we went up there yesterday and checked out the water situation and it was a good 10 deg cooler as soon as we got into the forest. plus the evening breezes where just plain cool! ie: rolling up windows and turning on a little heat for kiddos.

Where were you!?  I just did 30 miles this weekend, and it was 88*... in the shade! 

[Woody]

Well me and Dad hiked the Skyway, Pinhoti, Chianbee Silent loop. We started at Chinabee lake and took Skyway loop to the Pinhoti, then took the Chinabee Silent back to the lake, 17 and 1/2 miles total. We intended to take two nights and three days but we made it to the Falls Shelter 3 miles from the car at 3:30 on day two so we ended up making it an overnighter. The trails were good with only one tree down on the Pinhoti and maybe two on the Chinabee trails that were any trouble. Weeds were high but we expected that. There were plenty of markings and water was plentiful on all three sections. The view from Talladega Mountain was amazing. We left out Sunday with good weather and not too hot. Monday was an all day drizzle pretty much until after about 2:00 pm but it sure felt like Fall out there. We had a great time!

[Graceless]

We went to Dugger Mt and it was a bit hotter than we expected . But some friends said that Chinnabee was pretty cool breezes~ soo its I guess some hot pockets until it rains I suppose:P