Sunday, July 27, 2014

Maddron Bald

Date: 7/27/14
Distance: 14.8
New Map Miles: 6.8
Total Map Miles: 446.6

Today I headed over to the Cosby area of the park to hike the Maddron Bald Trail.  The trailhead is located on 321 a few miles from Cosby.  If you get to Jellystone, you just missed it.

The trail starts on a gravel road.  About 0.5 miles up the trail is a nice cabin.



Most of the trail is near a creek that must be crossed multiple times on the hike.



About 3.7 miles up the trail, you reach the Albright Grove Loop.  It is a walk through the woods with some big trees.  Shortly after leaving Albright, the trail started getting narrow and overgrown.  There were some nice flowers.








About 3 miles from Albright Grove, the trail reaches the Bald where there are some nice views.


There were also Blueberries which were awesome!



At the Snake Den Ridge Trail, I turned around and headed back down.


Back close to Albright, I found some nice blackberries.  These are just a few of the many I found.


After Albright, there were about 3 semi difficult creek crossings.  The 1st one was the worst one.  The hike did have a significant climb from about 1900' to 5400'.  I left the car at 12:20 and was back at the car at 6:15.

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