Who’s brilliant idea was this? Well, ok I might have mentioned it, but if Mary hadn’t pointed out the trailhead was like 200 feet from our camping spot, I wouldn’t have known it was there.<\/p>\n
September 9 to September 12<\/p>\n
After giving up on the waterfalls idea we started looking for a place to stay, last week we scoped out some designated spots along a couple of fire roads,\u00a0<\/span>we thought there would be at least a couple spots open since it is after Labor Day and Friday noonish. No luck finding a spot they were all occupied.<\/p>\n We get to the end of this one road and there are these people camping a non designated camping spot taking up the entire turnaround area, I was not impressed as they hurried to moved things enough so I could get the van turned around, I know that we were not the first vehicle to turnaround there because we met a car coming out as we were going in.<\/p>\n Well, anyway all the spots were taken, we pulled out on the main road and a local suspected we were looking for a place to camp, it was lunchtime so we pulled into a nearby picnic place and she followed us in and told us about a couple of more roads with free spots on them, that\u2019s how we arrived at Cherry Mountain.<\/p>\n There were only 2 spots open along this road \u00a0the one we chose was next a trailhead to the top of the Cherry Mountain, 3.7 miles………… we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n Both of us were tooooooo stubborn to give up and turnaround, we both have the blisters to prove it, it was a good day overall at 8 miles round trip, which was about 3 miles more than we really should have hiked.<\/p>\n Did bigfoot sleep here?<\/p>\n\n\t\t