Tim Homan

This is an excellent book about my favorite backpacking destination. I first fell in love with the Cohutta Wilderness after reading about it in Homan's "The Hiking Trails of North Georgia." Homan provides the kind of practical infomation that can only be gotten by having walked every inch of trail in his books. He saves a lot of reinventing the wheel, and his information about the difficulty and altitude changes of the trails can keep one from overstepping one's level of fitness and turning a pleasant weekend into a grueling forced march.

Having said all of that, I urge you NOT to buy it! One of the things I love about the Cohutta Wilderness is that, if you pick your trails right, you could backpack inside the Wilderness for a week and never see another human being. That is a rare thing in the eastern U.S., and the LAST thing I want to do is encourage more people to visit this breath-taking area of the Southern Appalachians.… (altro)