Here we are at the start of the Elk Creek Trail:
In no time we reached the stream ford crossing of Elk Creek and took off upwards toward Idiot Creek, here's mayhem jumping Elk Creek:
And me in the creek, I lugged two big pairs of rubber duckies to the stream crossing and stashed em near by. Mayhem jumped the creek with ease. The creek is still so low i felt pretty silly bagging those babies in but they were sure fun to splash around in
The new 3 mile section of the Wilson River Trail has some amazing rocky outcroppings along the way:
We did some trail maintenence before the big tailgate, with Cinnamon getting in on the action as well:) here's some before and afters.
Once we hit Idiot Creek Loop Road we hiked the road a short ways to the tailgate party(note the empty firepit, man):
Everyone left before we arrived so mayhem and I downed all the party favors by ourselves:
Stumblin and slurring for more we ripped through the rest. woah out of control tff, whats that non alcoholic O'douls doing there?!:
We found dozens of shotgun shells, boozer bottles and a funny little cheech pipe next to the o'douls. I guess the idiots on the creek didnt want to get drunk, stoned and trigger happy, just a combination thereof. The best was the two water bottles, both full amongst countless empty beer bottles. In reality it was pretty disgusting to see the lack of respect so many people have for the state forests/wilderness areas etc.
Heading back toward Elk Creek we snapped some more pics, one from me and one from mark of this beautiful creekside big leaf maple:
After the quick 8 miler up to the boozefester we decided to push on(famous mayhem/CH words) and drive down to the kings mtn trailhead to do the short kings jr jeep road loop with the Wilson River Trail:
We went up the Wilson River Trail to the intersection with the old kings jr road and looped back down to the Wilson. On our way up we spotted a dinosaur track from 2 days ago, the giant Bombadilasaurus Rex had been roaming the woods just 48 hours before:
Once we hit the KJ trail and started our decent mayhem found a fallen birds nest:
Heading down Kings J:
With Cinnamon checking things out for us, it was so much fun to watch her in her home turf. Mayhems dog is in great shape and really knows the area, plus shes super coolcute:
Oh NO!! mayman down, with mutt to the rescue!
Thx rescue mutt
The woods were cloaked in mist and fog for most of the day, but the sun did come in when we stopped hiking:
Elk Kings Legend Cinnamon after a day on the trails
Awesome dudes!
