[HairOfTheDog]

I felt a little like we were pole bending on a couple of Becky’s trails! Not bad at a walk but it was a little challenging at the rack!

I’d love to see if I could get Bay to swim in that lake... although it doesn’t look like there’s a safe way down at least right there.

Was there a stretch where you could go in?

[FrogInABlender]

The only place where it was safe to go in was at a boat launch. The banks were just too soft everywhere else. I tried to get Bob to go down and get in the water at the boat launch but 5 feet was as close as he would get to the edge. There was a pretty stiff breeze coming off the lake and there were little waves lapping at the shore and he was quite skeptical that they were not horse-eating monsters. I could've gotten him in there if I'd been by myself and had more time, but nobody else's horse would go in there either and the wind was beginning to get a bit sharp so we moved on.

This whole area was apparently used for phosphate mining a long time ago because we saw several old mine entrances. I think the lakes were a result of that so they just cleaned up the hollows and dammed them and made real lakes out of them. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency manages it, along with 15 or 20 other sites across the state. Here's a map of the trails if you want to check it out.