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THE
THE
HIKEHIKE

An AppalachianMacKaye Loop

The view from Springer Mountain is worth the .2-mile
backtrack on this 12.4-mile walk.

The 12.4-mile North Georgia loop hike contains as much history as it does beauty.
Text and photos by Leonard Adkins

A geography and history lesson is
in order before embarking on
this hike.
The Blue Ridge Mountains
begin in northern Georgia,
but immediately split into
two. The eastern arm swings
toward the flatter lands of
Georgia, North Carolina and
Virginia to form the western
boundary of the piedmont.
The western arm, generally at a
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higher elevation, is crossed by
numerous rivers which cut it
into different segments, such
as the Cohutta, Ellijay, Unicoi,
Great Smoky, Unaka and Iron
mountains. Forming an oval,
the two arms come back together near the Roanoke River
in Virginia.
Soon after Benton MacKaye proposed the Appalachian Trail (AT) in 1921, he



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