Blood Mountain Blog

The Blood Mountain Story Rising above Lake Trahlyta & Vogel State Park, is Blood Mountain, the highest peak on the Georgia section of the Appalachian Trail and the sixth-tallest mountain in Georgia, with an elevation of 4,458 feet. There are various theories on...

Winters, another of the beautiful seasons in the mountains

The thirteen scales on Old Turtle’s back represent the thirteen cycles of the moon in each year.  I have heard the Cherokee call our Winter, Gâlû, and the month of January, Unolvtana for Windblown. I simply refer to our winters as another of the beautiful seasons we...