Rice Camp Branch in the Cohutta Wilderness
Rice Camp Branch is one of my favorite little creeks running along the Rice Camp trail in the Cohutta Wilderness.
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Cove on Chestnut Lead Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness
Appalachian Coves are a beautiful, fascinating forest community, no matter the season. In the winter, you can appreciate the sheer height of the Tulip Trees and the passage of light during the day.
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Beeches on Rice Camp Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness
I love how beeches hold on to those leaves far past Fall.
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Conasauga River in Late Fall
The Conasauga River is especially beautiful in late Fall with floating leaves and remnant pops of color from maples and beeches.
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Autumn in the Cohutta Wilderness
The colors in the background are the focus, but the composition is deliberate here. The irony of the southern Appalachians is that it’s hard to photograph the trees, thanks to all the trees.
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Cohutta Wilderness from East Cowpen Trail
East Cowpen Trail affords some of the best views of the interior of the Cohutta Wilderness.
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Small Creek in Southern Appalachians
Sometimes hiking in the southern Appalachians can get brambly and overgrown, but I love spots where several forest communities are living close together. At this spot, there is dry, upland pine in the background and shaded, wet fernbank in the foreground.
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Hickory Ridge Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness
The Hickory Ridge Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness in the Chattahoochee National Forest is a favorite interior trail of mine.
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Fog on Chestnut Lead Trail in the Cohutta Wilderness
The Cohutta mountains in Georgia’s section of the Appalachians are not especially high, but their topography is unique enough to generate their own weather.
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Overlooking Cohutta Wilderness from Fort Mountain State Park
A few weeks ago we went to the lovely Fort Mountain State Park in Chatsworth, Georgia for several nights. This…
