RATtreks

Lost Cove Creek – 9-27-2012

Ever since my waterfall crazy friend Dave Aldridge took me to see Little Lost Cove Creek Falls  (North Carolina) back on July 5, 2012, I had wanted to go back and walk the old road trail above them down to the Lost Cove Creek to see where it came out at. Dave had been looking at that area on his Google Earth and thought he saw the whitewater of some waterfalls on Lost Cove Creek near the end of that road and contacted me to see if I was interested in going on a short hike there, so on September 27, 2012, Dave, my girlfriend Linda, and myself, went to the Little Lost Cove Creek area and followed that old forest road past the turnoff to the Little Lost Cove Creek Falls until it eventually ended at the Lost Cove Creek in the valley below. This is about a 2 mile hike on a very nice old road trail so it did not take long to reach the bottom where it intersects with Trail 262 that follows the Lost Cove Creek all the way down past Huntfish Falls to where it enters into the Gragg Prong Creek. That trail also loops to Roseboro via the Timber Ridge Trail. Once we reached this trail intersection, we took Trail 262 downstream for a short distance until we found the gps point Dave was looking for. It seems the whitewater he had seen was not a falls at all but a small cascade ! It was really not worth the effort to walk down there and back but then again, it was just a short hike to get a little exercise and besides, any day in the woods is a good day right? Plus, now I know where that road goes to and I found where the Lost Cove Creek Trail (262) crosses the creek there and heads up to Timber Ridge to get to Roseboro. I want to do that loop one day. I also scouted out another trail at the intersection that leads back towards the ridge in the direction of the Big Lost Cove Cliffs and upstream on the Lost Cove Creek which I also want to further investigate as I am sure I seen some nice falls with a large pool there on the Google Earth map. Linda found a small garter snake laying in the trail before we got to the cascades which was the highlight of the trip.The weather was great and we stopped for BBQ at the Highlander in Roan Mountain on the way home.

Old forest road trail that leads down through the Little Lost Cove Creek Valley to the Lost Cove Creek / Valley

Old road trail leading down through the Little Lost Cove Creek Valley to the Lost Cove Creek/Valley below

Stoners had been there

Garter Snake

Lost Cove Creek

Cascades on Lost Cove Creek

Cascades on Lost Cove Creek

Cascades on Lost Cove Creek