Treking to the Lost Cove
by fasterlaster on Jan.07, 2008, under Savage
The Savage group once again made our yearly trip into the woods of Eastern TN,Western NC. This time heading to find the community of Lost Cove. Friday evening was spend waiting for all to arrive at the hostel where we stayed Friday night. The next morning we all set out traveling down the railroad tracks to the know trailhead heading up into the past. Many hours later we were greeted with our first view of the existence of a former community. Lost Cove had been inhabited from the late 1800 all the way till the 1960′s when the last of the families moved away. All that remains now is a small collection of fallen houses, most with the chimney still intact. Our exploring found two standing structures which certainly were a bit eery. The remainder of the weekend was spend exploring and trying to imagine what it might have been like in the peak of it’s community.
