Tellico, visiting the grave

[97TJGUZZY]

Coming In on Davis Creek Road


Where the Paystation Used to be


In front of the old parking lot/unloading area, they turned it back into a hillside


The old exit to Upper 2




Trail 4


There are many places like this where they straightened out the curvy road


This is where they are reconstructing some of the switchbacks...sediment? what sediment...


More to come.

 

[jimbo92]

unreal....

 

[cannonball]

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.

 

[01tj]

What a shame, I wish I could go run Lower 2 and Slickrock right now.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

I have more from Lower 2 and the rest of the park I'll try to post tonight.

 

[Burzinski's TJ]

Glade I had the chance to go with you brooks before this all happend

 

[97TJGUZZY]

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.



you can see what Upper 2 looked like on the trail map here

 

[jimbo92]

Is stateline camp still there?

 

[97TJGUZZY]

yup, stateline and the other sites are still there, there were actually a lot of people out there camping.

 

[jimbo92]

Sadness

 

[97TJGUZZY]

Entrance to Lower 2



Bridge where Trail 5 turns off of Trail 1


Trail 5


Trail 6


Beaverdam Road on the way up to the top of Lower 2


Top of Lower 2

 

[jimbo92]

so judging by the pictures the best trail system in the southeast no longer requires a transfer case

 

[97TJGUZZY]

Beaverdam Bald


On the Way to another bald


Near the beginning of upper 2

 

[01tj]

So what is the purpose of these roads now? Access for loggers or what?

 

[97TJGUZZY]

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.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

here is a view of Upper 2 from 2010 before they "obliterated" it

 

[97TJGUZZY]

Upper 2 from the backside coming off trail 1​

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

Clemson Offroad Club Representing almost 10 years later!!!​

RIP Tellico​

 

[97TJGUZZY]

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

 

[LBarr2002]

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...

 

[01tj]

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.: But Yea I don't think it is him.