Bob, you're the first to add peaks in this area. Looks like a pretty rugged area. I noticed that this mountain is more or less the source for the Little Tennesee River. The Tennessee breaches the Smokies south of the park and eventually joins the Ohio. I would have guessed that it all drained directly to the Gulf.
There are a couple of photos I'd like to post, but I seem to have a couple of assholes zero-voting a lot of my pictures so I didn't post them. One of them features a trailside sign indicating the Eastern Continental Divide along the Tennessee Rock Trail.
Most of the bulk of Blackrock Mountain lies along the ECD, with streams on one side flowing to the Gulf, and on the other to the Atlantic.
In addition, Blackrock Mountain offers some of the best views I've seen from the south of the Standing Indian/Ridgepole Mountain area--basically you can see the ramparts of the country that makes up the Southern Nantahala Wilderness from the overlooks on Blackrock. And, happily, almost no real eastate development in that direction (unlike the red dirt rape of the land south of there).
The sprawl is pretty bad to the south of the area. To the northwest it is not an issue because of National Forest lands and the Southern Nantahala Wilderness.
BobSmith - Oct 29, 2005 9:05 pm - Hasn't voted
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Rob A - Oct 29, 2005 9:28 pm - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentNice Page Bob.
later, Rob
mtwashingtonmonroe - Oct 29, 2005 10:18 pm - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentNice work Bob!
-Britt
BobSmith - Oct 29, 2005 11:33 pm - Hasn't voted
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mrh - Oct 30, 2005 1:39 am - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentAnother good page by Bob Smith.
BobSmith - Oct 30, 2005 8:14 am - Hasn't voted
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BobSmith - Oct 30, 2005 8:15 am - Hasn't voted
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desainme - Oct 30, 2005 8:32 am - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentBob, you're the first to add peaks in this area. Looks like a pretty rugged area. I noticed that this mountain is more or less the source for the Little Tennesee River. The Tennessee breaches the Smokies south of the park and eventually joins the Ohio. I would have guessed that it all drained directly to the Gulf.
BobSmith - Oct 30, 2005 10:05 am - Hasn't voted
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There are a couple of photos I'd like to post, but I seem to have a couple of assholes zero-voting a lot of my pictures so I didn't post them. One of them features a trailside sign indicating the Eastern Continental Divide along the Tennessee Rock Trail.
Most of the bulk of Blackrock Mountain lies along the ECD, with streams on one side flowing to the Gulf, and on the other to the Atlantic.
In addition, Blackrock Mountain offers some of the best views I've seen from the south of the Standing Indian/Ridgepole Mountain area--basically you can see the ramparts of the country that makes up the Southern Nantahala Wilderness from the overlooks on Blackrock. And, happily, almost no real eastate development in that direction (unlike the red dirt rape of the land south of there).
Larry V - Oct 30, 2005 10:11 am - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentSorry to hear that the urban sprawl is destroying the scenery in Georgia too. In many ways our people are too affluent for their own good.
BobSmith - Oct 30, 2005 10:38 am - Hasn't voted
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The sprawl is pretty bad to the south of the area. To the northwest it is not an issue because of National Forest lands and the Southern Nantahala Wilderness.
Dean - Oct 31, 2005 12:05 pm - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentNice work on a Georgia mountain. Looks like an interesting area.
BobSmith - Oct 31, 2005 6:25 pm - Hasn't voted
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BobSmith - Nov 1, 2005 6:23 am - Hasn't voted
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2skinners - Nov 1, 2005 7:56 am - Voted 10/10
Untitled CommentVery nice and informative page!!
BobSmith - Dec 8, 2005 5:16 pm - Hasn't voted
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