Progress (2012-06-02) 104.5 Miles
With the second section of the Eutaw Springs passage, what was a well-maintained and well-marked Palmetto Trail has morphed into a confusing jaunt where reality bears no resemblance to the maps printed from the www.palmettoconservation.org website. While it is frustrating, I expected this kind of challenge and the Palmetto Trail experience would have somehow fallen short of my expectations if this hadn’t have happened.
For those weary travelers behind me…
1) don’t trust the trial marker at mile 10 – it does not lead to any semblance of a trail,
2) Fredcon Road does not intersect Hwy 6…take Rocks Pond Road and cut across to Fredcon,
3) Bounty Road does not intersect Hwy 6 either…take Battlefield Road, which is actually a loop, and take the short trail that connects it to Bounty Road,
4) don’t trust any signs on Section 2 of the Eutaw Springs Passage…the few that are there lay a false trail and, finally,
5) don’t trust the multi-cat owning Graeae that lives on Battlefield Road when she tells you to turn around and head back out to Hwy 6.
The map on the Eutawville kiosk is right: www.flickr.com/photos/birdshot/7158178377/sizes/k/in/phot...
Progress (2012-06-02) 104.5 Miles
With the second section of the Eutaw Springs passage, what was a well-maintained and well-marked Palmetto Trail has morphed into a confusing jaunt where reality bears no resemblance to the maps printed from the www.palmettoconservation.org website. While it is frustrating, I expected this kind of challenge and the Palmetto Trail experience would have somehow fallen short of my expectations if this hadn’t have happened.
For those weary travelers behind me…
1) don’t trust the trial marker at mile 10 – it does not lead to any semblance of a trail,
2) Fredcon Road does not intersect Hwy 6…take Rocks Pond Road and cut across to Fredcon,
3) Bounty Road does not intersect Hwy 6 either…take Battlefield Road, which is actually a loop, and take the short trail that connects it to Bounty Road,
4) don’t trust any signs on Section 2 of the Eutaw Springs Passage…the few that are there lay a false trail and, finally,
5) don’t trust the multi-cat owning Graeae that lives on Battlefield Road when she tells you to turn around and head back out to Hwy 6.
The map on the Eutawville kiosk is right: www.flickr.com/photos/birdshot/7158178377/sizes/k/in/phot...