North Alabama Sierra Club
SECRET FOUNTAIN TRIP REPORT
Location: Jackson County, Alabama
Type: Dayhike Rating: Strenuous Date(s): May 8, 2004
Travel time (one-way): 1.hour
Trailhead: <secret>
Advertisement: Secret Fountain Dayhike Near the Walls of Jericho. Secret Fountain /fireplug hike. Return via off-trail hike to the place where Moses tapped and water spewed out of a rock; then rockhop for two miles; then walk steeply up 1100 ft. Clue: Moses looked like Carl Craig! Strenuous, leader approval required. Call Sam Denham, 539-1033(h), 961-0436(w).
In Attendance: 10
Write-up / Notable Events:
We started down from the little church and cemetery just across the TN line just north of Skyline. Dropped in and rock hopped the stream bed of a feeder to Hurricane Creek. Took lunch at the stream resurgence called Secret Fountain. We then went on to the walls. We hiked back up the mountain using some of the old skid line logging rut. Then Sam rode his bike back up to get a car, to shuttle everyone back to the church.
It was a nice spring day and a great hike. We had the valley nearly to ourselves. We crossed paths with a couple on horseback.
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Related Links:
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State Forever Wild Management Site for Walls of Jericho
http://www.outdooralabama.com/public-lands/stateLands/foreverWild/FWTracts/Walls_of_Jericho.cfm
Maps:
http://www.briartech.com/walls.pdf
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