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Walking Chickamauga Battlefield - Nature Virtual Walk in Georgia - 4k City Walks
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Mar 18, 2025
This is mostly a nature walk through the autumn woods of Chickamauga and Chatanooga National Military Park. We'll see some memorials of course but mostly we are walking through the forest of North Georgia around Snodgrass Hill on a beautiful fall day. #Chickamauga #walkingtour #CityWalks #virtualwalk #walkathome #treadmillworkout #treadmillscenery #virtualtreadmill Please feel free to share or embed these videos with others or direct them to the searchable website https://citywalksvirtualtours.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CityWalks Buy me a Coffee at https://ko-fi.com/citywalksvirtualwalkingtours Paypal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CityWalks Instagram: @citywalks_virtualtravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCityWalks Twitter: @walks_city You might be interested in our other Channels: CityWalks360 - 360 VR walking videos: tinyurl.com/yg5dkewu TravelingMel - FamilyTravel - https://youtube.com/TravelingMel The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18–20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.[1][2] It was the first major battle of the war fought in Georgia and the most significant US defeat in the Western Theater, and it involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks the channel where I take you along
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with me in various cities and towns and trails in natural areas and today a
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battlefield um and I sort of share with you the things that I discover and that
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Serendipity uh puts in our path uh to today we are at chiam Maga
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Battlefield in Georgia right across the line from Tennessee not far from
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Chattanooga it is a beautiful early November day it's about4 2: p.m. 76° fah
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I think that's uh 25° C let me check yes
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um and it's going to be today a mixture of Nature and and open well forest and
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open uh a little bit of History I'm not going to talk too much about the Battle it was um an intricate thing and a lot
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of people know a lot more about it than I do there's probably a ton of stuff out there on YouTube about this battle I'm
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not really a civil war buff uh but it certainly was a seminal moment uh in
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United States history if not the world history um and so I'm just GNA talk a little bit
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about it and then we'll see what else comes up give you the overview so my
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understanding and I got some elements wrong in an earlier walk I did at Mount Lookout or Lookout Mountain sorry and uh
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so I'll try not to make myself look too bad but
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um oh first of all thank you to our patreon supporters and Kofi
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coffee uh contributors and PayPal gifters I really do appreciate your
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support huge help huge encouragement and I I really thank you for that you want to learn more about that there's some
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links in the YouTube description uh check out the city walks virtual tours website as well uh 1863
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September um I believe the Confederates had been pushed out the Confederates who
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had uh tried to leave the union I had been pushed out of Chattanooga
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and this was I think two years into the war or more um
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and had turned around to face the Union Army pushing them out and engage them uh
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in the middle of the battle this was in September 1863 in the middle of the battle the leading Union general thought
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he had uh had a gap in part of his line and
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moved some uh some troops from one section over to
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this other section which actually created an actual Gap in the line which
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the Confederates broke through um the top
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General uh Rosen CR I think uh he at that point had to leave the
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battlefield with a big chunk of the army uh he was in the center and then his but
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his left wing held out here in another Hill this is Snodgrass Hill I think and another
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sort of horseshoe shaped Hill and they held out for the rest of the day before
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having to retreat leaving the Confederates in possession of the
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battlefield correct me if I'm wrong in the YouTube description please uh
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um the total loss I believe was 34,000 Americans killed or wounded or missing
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of which I think 10 no I think 10,000 4,000 of those were
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4,000 were killed uh I don't remember the numbers
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uncaptured but basically I think the Union forces got the worst of it and
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the um conflict would arise again outside of Chattanooga at uh Lookout
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Mountain and missionary Bridge uh in any case that's the extent of my knowledge
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of the battle that I really want to try and relate otherwise I'll get it wrong as I said uh I want to comment on this
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National Historic Park though Military Park I think it was the first one in the country in I think it
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1890 um they had a film at The Visitor Center a wonderful little Visitor Center
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but they've got a theater that shows a film with sort of reenactment stuff
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and got a mosquito trying to bug me here
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um and some maps and a bookstore and then they've also got a gun collection which is kind of
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interesting and a very helpful staff member who uh directed me over to this
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area to start they have a whole driving tour an
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app a phone app type thing and um all these as you can see just tons and tons
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of monuments um and these
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placers which sort of explain to you or try to explain and piece everything
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together this very complex massive battle uh and we're going to just keep
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walking around here and we're not going to read the panels because there're just so many of them so many uh monuments to
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various brigades and divisions etc etc
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um from different places so it's just too much to read and not the focus of this channel but I do want to talk to
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you about how beautiful it is here um it is as I said 77° in the sun
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it gets a little warm but it's been sort of Cloudy off and on and when the clouds come in it's beautifully nice and
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cool and we' got the fall leaves everywhere and uh
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it just you can smell the uh the leaves and the Bracken in this deciduous forest
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that we don't really have in Montana which is nice to experience
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here and you've got just people out enjoying the space I've seen a lot of
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Walkers one lady actually reading her book as she walked the there's a main
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road that goes through it and then there's these sort of side roads that are many of them one way uh and and all
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of them I think have a 25 mph speed limit so you're not dealing with a ton of traffic you're not dealing with a
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done of ton of speeding Vehicles nice to be able to walk around here in peace and
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uh even with the little guys up here yelling and uh earlier I was noting just
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a lot of song bird calls calling which was really nice to
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hear different um different kind of bird birds that I'm not used to and I saw
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blue jay flitting through the forest which was nice and uh yeah so there's a a mom up
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here with looks like five kids of varing Ages getting them out learning a little bit very cool and
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they're getting their yells out which is good good for them this is a snod crass
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cabin up here one of the things I read was was that this battlefield is a mix
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of woods and open space which is kind of unique and it's really a large Park um
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there's no entrance fee that I could see uh I think technically you probably would want to have one but I don't uh I
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haven't seen any place trying to connect collect a fee so I'm assuming it's just open and free I believe here's a a
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little thing on the uh the app that you can download or dial in
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to get a recording I think and press eight or scan that QR code uh which is pretty cool and
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handy um saves a ton of paper to
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manage um I used to think going paperless was going to be a huge e environmental benefit but
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now upon further reflection it probably probably is but but you know there's
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that energy cost we're starting to see anyway um this is Snodgrass cabin
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kind of a squared it's got a a squared log type
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situation Hearth in there I don't know who lived here apparently somebody named
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Snodgrass um different than the Western cabins that I'm used to seeing uh which
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would have rounded logs probably because the logs they work with here look at these joints that's kind of
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neat the logs they have to work with here are not as straight so it just
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makes more sense to square them off a little
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bit
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beautiful there is they give you a map of trails
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uh but then I keep seeing these other trails s that sort of seem to
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um lead off into the woods and places like where we started that I didn't see
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on the map and it could be it probably is your user
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error but let's oh and they had a bike lane on a couple of the roads that was kind of
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nice to see let's just enjoy the nature for a
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bit
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oh I'm going to spin you around real quick cuz I forgot to introduce myself hello my name is Henry I will be
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your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide your co-discoverer and I like to point out
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that uh it is discover because as I've said last 10 minutes I'm not an expert
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on this area I am here to learn and share some of that with you maybe share
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some uh beautiful foliage and Forest views as well I'm going to flip you around
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again I like to clarify that um I get a lot the occasional uh comment oh you
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should learn more before you speak and you're probably right um
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but this is not my career it's just a fun side project that I like to do and share
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with people um and I think a lot of people really appreciate it uh so I
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encourage you all to share your Corrections and your um additional
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information kindly if you don't mind in the comment section uh and your memories
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and personal connections and and family histories and you know I get a lot of
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that oh my my uncle or my great-grandfather lived there and is buried here and did this and that I love
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hearing that stuff it's so cool uh it gives me a sort of a sense of connection with you guys and I really do appreciate
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it uh look at this Forest is it just
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beautiful the other thing I get a lot more so not a lot but more so is uh
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asking me to be quiet totally get it uh the talking is not for everybody respect
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um and I what I say is well that's what I do because I've asked out I've reached
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out and asked the viewers quite often several times anyway um what they like
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what they don't like and if I should just be quiet and the vast majority of
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comments I get are to please keep talking so that's what I'm going to do
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there's a lot of other great uh silent walking channels out there easy to find
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so all these great leaves down here show you my feet
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it seems to me like there's just a lot more diversity of species in this kind of
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forest um than we than I get in Montana uh
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where we are anyway we have obviously several different species but it's usually uh dominated by one species at a
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time with some lingering uh other species in there and
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I think they tend to follow a sessional successional uh
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cycle oh that just smells so wonderfully wonderful I guess
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a lot of the books and shows and dramatizations show the horrific nature of the battle and
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the wounds and the just the brutality of these
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battles but feeling the way it is today uh the weather um and thinking
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back two months ago what it must have been like in September of
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1863 and then thinking about wearing a wool
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uniform uh just brutal um and thinking about all the
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sort of minutia that we take for granted in our modern lives that they didn't have back then entertainment for one I
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mean I'm terrible about just diving into my phone as soon as I as soon as I uh
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feel a little bit bored or in need of distraction you know it's not like you
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could pop pre-cooked meal into the microwave to heat it
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up basically ate a bunch of hard tack which was
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basically wheat bricks from what I gather and just getting sick right you
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get sick you could die I had the little bow of the flu
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influenza last weekend and it was miserable but you know you know back
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then before they knew what germs were could kill
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you however in on the theme of Health been trying to post
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um some walking related health articles or articles on
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how walking is good for your health in various ways on a new Facebook group
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that I have put together it's called the same as the old Facebook group I mean page other but it's got group at the end
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and I put a link on the Facebook page uh I should put a link on the website as
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well but the reason I switched over to a group is I wanted to allow you guys the
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viewers to share other Walks from other channels and other articles about walking and the health
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benefits of walking and that sort of thing so um if you're interested in
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doing that and finding more uh walks please uh look that up I'll try to
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remember to put a link in the YouTube description make it a little bit easier
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love seeing how this light is streaming through these leaves and backlighting
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them that's an interesting random looking dead pine
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tree speaking
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of variety of species diversity of species
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another series of monuments I
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guess a lot of these are not accessible by car this road is pedestrian and horse
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only I'm assuming you can ride bikes on I think this is this allows
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horses some of the trails are horses and bikes they're listed as that and others
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are listed as hiking only
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uh it looks like some of these have had their plaques removed or fallen off
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or stolen that's too bad
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there's a blue J flying up here Landing in that
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tree way it goes h
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two roads diverged in a wood let's go to the
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right just cuz I saw a cannon up
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here hi there uh I think this
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weekend there's a road race and I don't know if that is a running race or a bike
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race but it's not the first year they've done it um which is pretty cool I mean this
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would be a great place to do either of those
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things see a red Trail marker up here and on the map that indicates that one
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of the indicators that uh you can ride horses on
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it and
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also uh what is going to say got distracted with
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my own thoughts oh and then there's some a
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couple other colors as well I think it's blue and red maybe White
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as we walk through here I'm imagining you know being in that
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position at the time and what it might have been like and how while it's relatively easy walking
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in underst story and relatively clear you can only see
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about 50 to 60 yards sometimes
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less and you're in your line your hot wool suit uniform and you're advancing
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or waiting on somebody to advance and then all hell breaks
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loose must have been horrific and terrifying
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see this looks like a trail it's not
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marked maybe it's just a little spur to a plaque up there
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go
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is
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we're getting closer to the road one of the main roads Highway
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27 I'm starting to hear some traffic sounds
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uh I was going to comment earlier about how these leaves are beautiful and so
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colorful and even the green ones and in another month or
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so when they're all changed and they're all off the trees have all
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Fallen it'll be a brown and gray landscape and I will say
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that a couple months of that can be especially on a gray day it can
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be uh mentally draining of course on a crisp winter day it can be quite
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nice I was driving around in the car earlier and just I opened the windows
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cuz it's warm and I don't really want to be blasted by AC the whole time and just
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the difference in um being in the Fresh Air versus being in an
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office space or a car and just insulated from the world around us um for so much
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of our day right I uh spent a lot of time behind a computer and
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then um I I walk home I'm lucky enough that I can walk home um and then I sit
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down have dinner and either watch TV or read
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or uh do some more work and that's kind of most my days and
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then even on the weekends you know there's a lot of work and a lot
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hopefully we can get out and get the family out on trail I love this sort of Trail straight away it's not quite
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straight which is nice so it doesn't look too manufactured but it's a definite tunnel through the
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trees um any case uh I'm just appreciative of
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every opportunity that I can get outside and try to be a little bit more
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present in this in the world in the space um a lot of what I read says the the
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science says that's really good for our mental health and I'm trying
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to maintain that right now
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right now the leaves are kind of coming down in ones and twos sporadically but every once in a
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while the wind will catch a tree that oh look at this dead snags a tree that is you know just done
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for the year and a shower of leaves will come down that's kind of neat
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I think we are now paralleling that Highway
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hi there
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looking up you can see how tall these trees are it's and and how skinny relatively
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skinny some of them are it's a miracle that they stay vertical to me and then
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you see some of these older ones that are no longer
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vertical it's kind of I don't know it's just kind of wild kind of interesting
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good to appreciate Nature's Wonder
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sometimes it's a whole area of dead or dying trees it seems like
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this is interesting I think I want to go to the right here you can see some of these
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signs indicate no bikes or horses uh hiking and dog walking only
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there's a QR code trail map since I didn't bring my trail
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map I'm gonna see that here in case you want to look up the QR
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code it's a basically a PDF map
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I'm either really close or really far away from a parking area
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just love the way the sunlight comes through these things it's like a stained glass window a lot of
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ways look at these leaves that is a seriously strong spider web up there
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little remnants thereof
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it's fun to think about how old some of these trees are uh different species grow at
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different rates in different
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climates it's interesting to think if some of them were here 160 years
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ago it's wild to think that's how long ago it was to me
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male Rob male cardinal sorry off to the left kind of a bright
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red probably can't pick it out out of all that for
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all right
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believe I want to go this way
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maybe I want to go this way I think this is a
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trail
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yeah and in fact go a little further but then I might blay oh look at this
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I don't know what that Old Brick is from and stone I don't know if
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it's from ages gone by [Music] or some Park
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infrastructure can see the yellow Blaze
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here
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for
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for for [Music]
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and a clear open space off to the right I kind of think I need to go up to
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return to the origin of this walk but I'm going to wait and see a
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little bit
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it is so what we're going to do is we're going to make a
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right and cut across this
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field hopefully not scaring any copperheads
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okay so here's the oh another one of the open areas and you can see the Snodgrass
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cabin up ahead where we uh we didn't exactly start but we pretty close to our
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start so and we kind of looped back into the woods over here on the right made a
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big loop imagine you're a soldier and you are
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walking towards the enemy nothing between you and their
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rifles and you did it
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anyway what a waste
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although I'm not sure the enemy came from this direction I think they might have come from the other side of the hill so uh the Enemy being the
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Confederates being the ones on the offensive
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it's a nice place to walk though
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I think this might be the horseshoe area that I read
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about and Snodgrass Hill to the the
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right
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man and this is the meadow we just walked over I should point that
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out beautiful I don't know what what's the word for that agrarian pastoral
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maybe view beautiful day here in
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Northwest Georgia I
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think okay guys thank you so much for joining us on this sort of mainly a nature walk really I hope you enjoyed it
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as much as I did which I really did there's a bluebird or something off to the left
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there um in any case uh learn more about chiam
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Maga battle and Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain check
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out the lookout mountain walk and a couple Chattanooga Walks from last year I hope to get a at least one more
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Chattanooga walk in we'll see what what'll what time allows and uh
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efforts and I hope you'll join me for those I hope you'll check out the website the new Facebook
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group oh bluebirds love them and I hope you have a great day see you next time
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until then keep on stepping for
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