We headed up to Sparta to hike the Dog Cove Historic Area. We hiked the 2.25 Homestead trail first passing by the three different Homesteads. Saw deer while going through. The water was down so the creeks were dry. At the end of the trail, if you continue about fifty yards you will find a good water source on Little Lost Creek before it goes underground. We did the loop around the Billy Sapp Homestead field where we got to see some wild hogs. There were four that went across the trail in front of us and then a brown one with little ones saw us and squeeled as she turned around and ran. She came back and looked again, squeeled and then all of the hogs ran back into the woods. From there we took the 2 mile Low Gap trail which is pretty much straight up to Low Gap. We stopped to see the Low Gap Arch and Hunter's Pass. At Hunter's Pass we saw another deer. We hiked down to the Highwater trail and hiked the 0.45 miles back to the car.
After we got back to the car we decided to hike 1.25 miles up to Meditation Rock on the Dry Creek Falls trail. Then it was time to head home. The trails here might be a little slick in the wet weather.
