Bringing in the New Year: Wagon Train Trail via Brasstown Bald
The icicles (look behind our heads) lined the rocks the whole way up the trail. On New Year's Day, we cooked up a fantastically delicious lunch of cubed steak with black-eyed peas, collards, and other fine Southern staples. 'They' say that every leafy green eaten on New Year's Day is a dollar earned in the new year, with every pea equating to one cent. We packed up our winter gear and headed north, blissfully hoping that each layer of clothing we wore would follow the old peas & greens New Year's superstition and bring something prosperous into 2016. Wagon Train Trail spurs off the summit trail for the highest peak in Georgia, Brasstown Bald (elevation 4,784 feet). I wish we would have discovered this trail much sooner. All the times over the years that Gadget and I have walked the summit trail (and paid the $5/person entrance fee at the parking lot), we were fools for not checking out this section of the park. I feel an undeniab