Where can you take a 30 hour vacation to help recharge your life? Simple;  the Len Foote Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls, that’s where!  What, you may ask, is the Hike Inn?  It’s a lodge way back in the woods of north Georgia accessible only by foot on a five mile hiking trail.  That’s right; no cars, trucks, snowmobiles, go carts, golf carts or pack mules….just your own two feet.

My wife Margaret thought a good mid-winter break from the city doldrums was due so we asked some hiking buddies if they’d like to spend the night at Len Foote.  We’d all been there in the past…in fact this same group (excluding me) went on the coldest day recorded last year.  It was quite the adventure considering the temperatures, attesting to the fact that the usually filled lodge had only two other visitors.  Regardless they loved it and most returned this year. Read more