Fiery Gizzard Trail

My Dad preparing to climb down the hill

Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  Psalm 139:14 NIV

The first day of our camping trip last weekend, we hiked the Fiery Gizzard Trail, which is in the Grundy Forest State Natural area within the South Cumberland State Park in eastern Tennessee.  My parents were able to meet us for this hike, and since we are hiking with my Dad on the Vermont section of the Appalachian Trail this summer, this was good practice for us.

This area is so beautiful.  I had a really hard time picking only a few pictures! But I did finally figure out how to use the Gallery in WordPress, so insterting them is much easier and it displays much nicer.  On this hike we hiked the 2 mile loop, plus added a mile each way on the longer overnight trail because there were just so many amazing things to see.  This was another challenging trail, but it was so worth it.  We had really fun climbing all around.

And once again, I’m truly amazed by all of the awesome, varied, wild, unique and spectacular beauty of God’s creation.  My husband had such a good time that he can’t stop showing pictures to everyone who will stop for a minute and look! lol I’m glad he had a great time. He works so hard, he deserves it!

I can’t believe the trees can grow on this rock!

Who comes up with these names anyway?? And what is a “fiery gizzard”?

My husband had a ball hopping through the streams.

Little forest flowers

This area is called the “Fruit Bowl” with boudlers the size of busses.

The trees were magnicent!

The roots often made good steps.

We often climbed through boulder fields.

What kind of storm did this to this tree?

 

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