How about kayaking Terrapin Creek? Kayaks and canoes can be rented through the Terrapin Outdoor Center.
Below is a chart of the water levels on Terrapin Creek. They're pretty high right now and if we get rain between now and the weekend those levels may hold up.
Water levels for Terrapin Creek
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Weekend fun for runners
There's at least one local running event in the area this weekend (am I missing any?):
The Jacksonville Lions Club is sponsoring its third annual Chief Ladiga 5k. There's an online entry form here. Things kick off at Jacksonville State University's Pete Mathews Coliseum, and most of the run takes place on the Chief Ladiga Trail. There's a course map online, here.
Registration is $12 in advance, $15 on race day. Anniston Runners Club members, JSU students, faculty & staff get a $2 discount. And of course, there's a fun run for kids 12 and under. There's also a crawl race for babies.
Any readers out there planning to run?
The Jacksonville Lions Club is sponsoring its third annual Chief Ladiga 5k. There's an online entry form here. Things kick off at Jacksonville State University's Pete Mathews Coliseum, and most of the run takes place on the Chief Ladiga Trail. There's a course map online, here.
Registration is $12 in advance, $15 on race day. Anniston Runners Club members, JSU students, faculty & staff get a $2 discount. And of course, there's a fun run for kids 12 and under. There's also a crawl race for babies.
Any readers out there planning to run?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Flurry of Pinhoti press in Ga.
Lots of folks in Georgia are catching on to what we celebrated here in Alabama last month: the formal connection of the Pinhoti Trail to the Appalachian Trial via the Benton McKaye Trail.
There's a range of reaction to the link, depending on where the stories are published.
The news Web site AccessNorthGa.com, based near the AT's end, sounds downright worried, leading with the following:
The site goes on to say that "Backers hope to get the Alabama extension recognized as the official southernmost point on the Appalachian Trail." But from our next-door neighbors at the Rome News-Tribune, we hear the following:
An earlier story in the RNT says Alabama tourism officials (none are named or quoted) want to get the Pinhoti re-designated as part of the AT.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday reprinted a March 9 piece by The Birmingham News' Tom Spencer, which said "Backers hope eventually to make the case for getting the Alabama extension recognized as the official southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which would require an act of Congress," again without naming our directly quoting any of those backers.
There seems to have been something of an echo chamber, beginning with Spencer's March story in advance of the connection ceremony at Cheaha, to its reprint in the AJC March 30, and from there to the pieces from AccessNorthGa.com and the RNT. So the question becomes, who told Tom Spencer they'd like to see the Pinhoti become the AT's official southern end?
For what it's worth, folks in Alabama who've been promoting the trails' connection have said in The Star's pages they don't see a re-naming in the Pinhoti's future. In a piece published in our Insight section two Sundays ago, Joe Cuhaj, vice president of publicity for the Alabama Hiking Trail Society, wrote:
It's easy to see why the chamber of commerce folks near the AT's Georgia end at Springer Mountain might be worried - they don't want to lose any hiker-related business to those of us out hear near Mount Cheaha. It's also easy to see why their counterparts in Alabama would want the AT's famous name scrawled on tourist maps of our region. And it's easy to understand the sentiment of Pinhoti-lovers like those Cuhaj described who love their trail's isolated back-road character.
What do you think about it?
There's a range of reaction to the link, depending on where the stories are published.
The news Web site AccessNorthGa.com, based near the AT's end, sounds downright worried, leading with the following:
The official terminus of the Appalachian Trail is still in Northeast Georgia - in Dawson County - but if some groups get their way that could change.
The site goes on to say that "Backers hope to get the Alabama extension recognized as the official southernmost point on the Appalachian Trail." But from our next-door neighbors at the Rome News-Tribune, we hear the following:
“It’s not going to be included in it,” said Rome’s Larry Madden, president of the Pinhoti Trail Association.
An earlier story in the RNT says Alabama tourism officials (none are named or quoted) want to get the Pinhoti re-designated as part of the AT.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday reprinted a March 9 piece by The Birmingham News' Tom Spencer, which said "Backers hope eventually to make the case for getting the Alabama extension recognized as the official southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which would require an act of Congress," again without naming our directly quoting any of those backers.
There seems to have been something of an echo chamber, beginning with Spencer's March story in advance of the connection ceremony at Cheaha, to its reprint in the AJC March 30, and from there to the pieces from AccessNorthGa.com and the RNT. So the question becomes, who told Tom Spencer they'd like to see the Pinhoti become the AT's official southern end?
For what it's worth, folks in Alabama who've been promoting the trails' connection have said in The Star's pages they don't see a re-naming in the Pinhoti's future. In a piece published in our Insight section two Sundays ago, Joe Cuhaj, vice president of publicity for the Alabama Hiking Trail Society, wrote:
I have heard the argument for years about the Pinhoti losing its identity. It usually comes from dedicated and well-meaning volunteers who sweat and toil to maintain the trail for all to enjoy. They believe that once the Pinhoti was connected to the Appalachian Trail, the Pinhoti would disappear forever; it would become the Appalachian Trail; it would lose its name. There could be nothing further from the truth.
It's easy to see why the chamber of commerce folks near the AT's Georgia end at Springer Mountain might be worried - they don't want to lose any hiker-related business to those of us out hear near Mount Cheaha. It's also easy to see why their counterparts in Alabama would want the AT's famous name scrawled on tourist maps of our region. And it's easy to understand the sentiment of Pinhoti-lovers like those Cuhaj described who love their trail's isolated back-road character.
What do you think about it?
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