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At 1.5 miles, travel northeast across a power-line clearing and enter the forest on the opposite side of the clearing. The trail levels and turns left onto an old, grass-covered roadbed that leads to the top of Dick Ridge. At 2 miles, you begin an appealing trek across the east face of a slope where grasses, mountain laurels, and oak trees thrive.

The land to each side of the trail falls away dramatically as you ascend to an elevation of about 1,630 feet on Dick Ridge to cross the Tennessee Valley Divide (Waypoint 2), which separates the watershed for the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers from the Alabama River watershed. East Chickamauga Creek, north of the divide, eventually flows to the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, while Ponder Creek, south of the divide, eventually joins river systems that flow to the Gulf of Mexico. From the ridge summit, the path goes left, and a series of switchbacks winds down the western slope of the ridge. As you drop, the forest becomes a tangle of vines and underbrush.