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Date Hiked: 5/21/91
Length: 9.6 miles
Type: backtrack
Difficulty: 4
Scenery: 3
Blaze: none
Main Features: views
Animals: deer, timber rattlesnake
Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Take the Parsons Branch Road from the south side of Cades Cove. After 3 or 4 miles park in the parking lot on the right (the trail is on the left).
Approximate Altitude Changes
Ascend 2,200 feet
Miles
0.0 parking
0.5 step across small stream
step across small stream
1.2 begin hearing stream on right
1.5 begin following narrow ridge
small clearing here with partial views and breeze
switch to right side of ridge
1.7 stream crosses trail
2.5 partial views on right
2.8 step across stream
2.9 boulders on left
3.0 step across stream
3.1 big logs good for sitting
3.4 cross small stream
3.6 log on right good for sitting beside stream
step across two small streams
backwoods campsite number 13 at Sheep Pen Gap
turn left on Gregory Bald Trail (east)
4.1 Gregory Bald
backtrack to Sheep Pen Gap
4.7 turn left at Sheep Pen Gap on Wolf Ridge Trail
5.3 Parson Bald
backtrack
5.9 turn left on Gregory Bald Trail at Sheep Pen Gap
9.6 car
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