Prologue

No matter how many times I visit White Rock Hollow, I never tire of the view and the slight mystery of these woods.  So when Mike suggested we take a few guys and go up there, I was happy to join in.  It seemed like a chance to revisit Polly Takes the Plunge, Scattered Remains and maybe Cache Twenty-Two.  Mike pulled together the usual suspects plus a couple more and the plan took shape over a few days.

I spent a couple minutes retrieving the tracks from previous trips and drawing in some of the other trails I had found on maps.  I loaded up the GPS and got out the door for our meeting at the BP station a couple minutes from my door.  Man, this sure beats driving three hours just to get to the trail!

Muster

Everyone was at the BP when we arrived. 

It didn't take long for us to head up the road to the church near the trail head where we would get started.  I stopped to air down and disconnect.  Mike pitched in while Ted and Tom went off to find Polly's grave in the cemetery nearby,

Trail

Fairchance

From here we turned in to the trail and drove out to the first section that offered mud to the mud-lovers.  That's not be - I've had enough mud to last a lifetime so I spent my time avoiding it.  Others embraced it!

 

Movies (Above)

The next set of holes were hard to figure - they had a bottom but it was about 10-15 inches of water.  Probably not a problem, but again I didn't feel like tempting fate.  A few of us went around but we had one taker!

 

 

Movie

Scattered Remains

Soon we reached the site of an abandoned Dupont plant, said to be a TNT factory that blew up twice in its history, claiming dozens of lives.  There's nothing left to it today but ruins.  Tom and I visited the ruins on the other side of the road - ones we had not seen before.

Someone spotted a huge insect nest.

The cache was must as we left it last time - complete down to a car we left the first time visited!

On the way out we tempted the mud gods with some more fun and mud...

Movies (Above)

White Rocks Hollow

From here we doubled back and headed up to White Rock Hollow.  By accident, I took a different trail, one that I had not taken before but had plotted on my map and GPS.  So I got a chance to see another section of trail and do a little exploring.  Soon we met the trail usually taken and not long after that, got to the rocks.  We stopped to look at the geocache and explore the rocks.

After re-exploring the cave and still not finding a piece of the geocache puzzle, we returned to the Jeeps and drove back out to the road.  Along the way we got some pictures of washed-out sections of the trail.

 

We made a quick stop at the church to regroup and then headed back to Cheat Canyon for a trip down the Cheat...

 

Down the Cheat / Bee Run

I really like this trail.  Even in spite of some of the "events" I have attended at the bottom...

Epilogue

No snake bites.  No twisted ankles.  No mud hole excursions (though one seriously considered it until the winch was tested for possible use...)

We headed back up the long hill and drove back to the BP station.  I aired up and connected while we talked.  A great bunch of guys and a great day out!

 

 

 

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