First Trip Success!

Me and my boyfriend discovered shortly after meeting each other we’d always wanted to bikepack.

Anyway, we completed our first trip this weekend and it went amazing! We parked at an AT trailhead lot and then took our bikes on a forest service gravel road to a river and waterfall campsite in Appalachia. Parked at the Unicoi Gap lot and took the FS road across the road from the lot to the Upper Chattahoochee River campgrounds.

The first mile was a 500’ uphill, then 4 mile 1000’ decent. First mile mostly was mud and was quite tough – rain had made it very wet and squelchy. Descent was mostly gravel. Going back was the other way – 4 mile 1000’ gravel climb, then 500 downhill in mud. Two waterfalls on the route.

Awesome campsite with the prettiest falls I’ve ever seen (Horsetrough Falls) – the water and bathroom facilities had apparently been damaged from past storms, but it did have porta-potties which was nice.

But with no cell signal and water pumps out of service, you definitely got to come prepared!