Foothills Trail Archives - Nancy East

Planning Guide for a Foothills Trail Thru Hike

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:02:10 +0000

Overview of the Foothills Trail I have hiked the Foothills Trail twice. The first time, I hiked it as a mixture of day hikes and overnight backpacking trips, throughout the course of all four seasons in 2014-15. My three children hiked the trail with me at the ages of 10, 8 and 7. One of...

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Foothills Trail (Chimney Gap/F. Van Clayton Hwy. to Table Rock State Park)

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 03:07:00 +0000

Foothills Trail (Chimney Gap/ F. Van Clayton Hwy. to Table Rock State Park)–12.2 miles This weekend I celebrated my 44th revolution around the sun. Lucky me, my birthday wish came true–completing the Foothills Trail! Since it’s nearly impossible to coordinate the schedules of two different families with the same goal, this final hike was...

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Seal Moms Vs. Brawny Men (Frozen Creek Trail – Laurel Fork Creek)

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 02:33:00 +0000

Frozen Creek Trail in Gorges State Park to Laurel Fork Creek Seal Mom: A mom who takes her children backpacking during flood conditions and survives to tell the story. Brawny Man: 1. Iconic, manly lumberjack with epic strength. 2. What our husbands think of themselves on the Foothills Trail. After our first trip on the Foothills...

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Foothills Trail Mania Continues!

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:39:00 +0000

Back to our regularly scheduled programming–The Foothills Trail! I’m behind with my posts, because well, you know, life. The following trip report is from an early October weekend. We had a cold snap of weather come through the previous week, and we were excited because we knew it meant some of the yellow jacket nests...

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Foothills Folly: Attack on the Trail

Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:14:00 +0000

On Labor Day, as I tore off the sheet on my daily calendar, it read, “In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.” (Ovid). Ah, I thought, what a perfect segue this will lend on my blog about the day’s upcoming hike. Like most parents, I am guilty of not carving out enough leisure time in my life, but...

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Foothills Folly, Part III

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:52:00 +0000

Our Foothills journey continued one August weekend, and we were fortunate enough to gain Riley on our trip! He had recently backpacked part of the trail for six days with his church’s youth group and was pumped about joining our crew to teach these ol’ moms a thing or two! I especially enjoyed getting to know him...

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Foothills Folly Continues

Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:57:00 +0000

If you are fortunate enough to thru hike the Foothills Trail, your name will be forever emblazoned on their website as having completed the adventure. Since our kids are all about tooting their own horns at the end of this journey, you’d better believe we’ll be letting the conference know they rocked it and applying for the...

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Finding Me Again on the Foothills Trail (Oconee State Park to Burrell’s Ford)

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:13:00 +0000

I was twenty years old the first time a friend took me backpacking. I spent the night in the woods with nothing more than what I could carry in on my back. It was one of those life changing events when your eyes become opened to an entirely new way of seeing the world. As I...

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