The log is the weekly work: one morning, one page. These are the longer pieces. A journey is a trip told day by day from its own record; a story is one subject followed across many mornings of the log; a review is a trail written up before the log began.
Cherokee Trail
The loop around the base of the mountain, with the lake, the streams, the Grist Mill and a steep west side most people never see. I prefer it to the climb to the top.
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Laurel Ridge Trail
A loop through the Corps parks at the south end of Lake Lanier, with the lakeshore and a beach, a stream valley down to the Chattahoochee, a new bridge at the foot of Buford Dam and the stairs back up.
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Indian Island
The short loop around the island at the end of the covered bridge, with the mountain across the water. Where I go when I'm short on time.
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Venable Lake Loop
A short loop around Venable Lake on the south side of the mountain, half on the Cherokee Trail and half on a connector, with the water beside you nearly the whole way.
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Start Cold
What I wear hiking a Georgia winter, from my own sunrise log. The air barely warms on a walk, so the layers are about sweat. Why cotton fails, why merino, and my kit.
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The Boat in the Corner of the Frame
The riverboat that sat in the park's boatyard across the bay from Indian Island, on the far shore of a lot of my frames for years, adrift one December morning and cut up the next July. Which boat it was, and every frame of it in the log.
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Seattle to Sitka and Back
Ten nights, seven ports and one fjord in May 2024, told from the phone that kept the record: every time and place from its geotags, the ship's daily program and the archives.
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