Bill Gilmour led 9 other hikers today on a 6 mile hike in the 1 Horse Gap trail area. We started at the Benham Hill/Ridge parking area. Today, we had only ‘seasoned’ hikers. Skies were cloudy most of the day. We worked our way down into a valley, then before lunch, hit the boulders of The Gap. Bill also showed us the “hidden” box canyon. After lunch, we were “on top” of it. We saw 4 horse riders today. We ate lunch at the Rocky Top overlook. Just as we finished lunch, a few light 3 minute showers ‘hit’ us, worrying us, but, that was all the precipitation that hit us. It did get pretty humid as the hike went on. We later got back to the Glade area  of 1 Horse Gap. Many had not been in this particular area, so for them it was quite interesting. Another good thing was a low amount of trash.  We have just 1 more scheduled hike left this fall, in 2 weeks.

See Ya’ll on the Trail,

Chris Drone