Father's Day at Powers Island

It surely wasn't anything that was planned, but when Gretchen said "let's take Dad on a hike" I got fired up.  We consulted our 60 Hikes book and settled on what it called the Powers Landing Trail.  A short car ride and we made it to Powers Island (see mile 306.5 on the river map) where the trail started.

Of course, it is kind of funny that the CR-NRA sign shows these two without their life jackets and then makes a big deal just below this about wearing your life jacket.  For me; I always wear my life jacket on the river and I encourage everyone to do the same.

The Powers Island Hiking Trail is annotated on Google Maps and you'll see by the map I made of our trip that we surely took some shortcuts and only squeaked about a bit more than a mile; hey... we still got out there!.    Most of the trail looked much like the following.

Although there was the expected amount of downed trees and other "acts of God" as you can see by this uprooted tree.

We had a little fun with it all as you can see by my three favorite people walking under this one.

Like you find all up and down the Chattahoochee River, there were some pretty cool little rock formations, too.

More to my interests, parts of the trail ran along a little tributary.

You also are treated to some good views of Cochran Shoals.

We finished up the hike with a view of the canoe launch where I'm hoping to be at soon as part of my ATL50 - Canoeing thru the Chattahoochee River NRA adventure.

Of course, the folks tubing outnumber the paddlers about 10 to 1 on this section of the river.  Hey, get on the river however you can!!

While the hike was short, I never pass up some time in nature with my kids.  Thanks for getting us outside, Gretchen!!