Exploring Autumn

And that's why I love this part of the country! Will be up your way today for lunch with the fam.
Hope your day is blessed.
 
axe said:
And that's why I love this part of the country! Will be up your way today for lunch with the fam.
Hope your day is blessed.
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Me too, this area if full f natural resources. My day was great, I hope yours was as well and that you had a safe trip!


22-rimfire said:
Is that the Blue Hole where the triple homicide happened in 1988? Enjoyed your pictures.
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Thank you. No, that is just a pond in the woods. I haven't been to that particular blue hole (we have a lot of them here with that name), in several years. It's a place of sadness and anger for me. I went to school with Kenneth and I had some close calls with some of the goings on in that area myself. The feeling of being on a combat patrol, and always having someone stand guard, just to go swimming got old pretty quickly for me and my friends. There were a lot of little altercations up there that were reported, but it took a triple homicide to really draw attention to it.
 
You're right, there are a lot of ponds and small lakes on Signal Mountain. Really a nice place to live. I was hoping that you weren't related to one of the victims as the last names are similar and could have been a typo carried forward for years. Very sad event there and totally un-necessary.
 
22-rimfire said:
You're right, there are a lot of ponds and small lakes on Signal Mountain. Really a nice place to live. I was hoping that you weren't related to one of the victims as the last names are similar and could have been a typo carried forward for years. Very sad event there and totally un-necessary.
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Nope, not related. We were barely friends in school, but we talked now and then. He was a grade ahead or two ahead of me if I recall right. There were a few sad moments about it. One of them was the attempted posthumous character assassination of Kenneth. Pot was found in Kenneth's pockets. The media tried to make it seem like he was a criminal or something for a bit. If Kenneth put that in his pocket, it was for the purposes of reporting the activities out there, and even that seems unlikely to me. That wasn't Kenneth's when we were in school, he had his military career planned out by his freshman year, but he also wasn't a snitch. He knew several of us smoked back in high school, and came up on us doing so a few times. He would complain saying we were going to make him small like weed, but he never told on anybody. Kenneth just wanted to live and let live. A lot of us knew someone was going to get killed out there one day. Many of us had seen air drops, and neighbors had reported it. There was suspicion of protection... I have friends that live out that way, and it would be a short walk through the woods from their yards to the horseshoe or the helican, which is what that blue hole was called by most of us back then, but I just don't have the interest in going out there anymore.
 
Hope I didn't put a damper on your thread. Your picture of the pond looked so similar to the one on the TV special that was done that I just had to ask. Many people call things "blue holes", but for the most part they are open pits that have filled up with water in a limestone quarry based on my own experience. Used to swim at one as a kid although it was a bit hazardous for falling rock and no/few hand holds along the edges. But it was very deep and good place to dive where you didn't have to worry about hitting your head on a submerged rock.

There is a "blue hole" on the Camps Gulf Branch (Waterfall Hollow on Google Maps) which flows into Cane Creek over north of Falls Creek Falls SP that is kind of interesting and a wonderful place to explore for wildflowers in the spring. There is a huge spring there and yes, it's limestone.
 
No worries man, it's good for me to be reminded of that now and again. It has been years since I went out that way, or even thought of it for that matter.

I really love Fall Creek Falls, though I usually go there in the Autumn. It has been a while since I was there so I'll be a bit anxious and a spring trip sounds great to me. I love hiking in the Cane Creek gorge.
 
Great place to take your kids and tromp around for an afternoon and of course visit Falls Creek while you're there for the usual sights. It is state property, so you don't have to worry about trespassing issues. Dirt road access with a low water crossing through a creek gets you to area you can park.
 
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