Fri · Oct 3
Gallatin to Sale Creek
The route runs south through the familiar travel stops, reaches the Sale Creek basecamp after lunch, and the album begins at 4:21 p.m.
Trip log · Chickamauga Lake · October 3–6, 2025
Sale Creek: Cold Rain, Mushy
Four days around Sale Creek, a gray October morning, and Mushy proving the fish did not care about the dress code.Photo record46October 3–4
Tracked movement435.8 miAll recorded motion
Estimated truck≈340 miHighway + local road segments
Estimated boat≈96 miMixed on-water segments
Day-by-day evidence
What the track and camera can prove.
Sat · Oct 4
Mushy gets the cover
At 8:12 a.m., in rain gear and flip-flops, Mushy supplied the strongest fish photo of the trip.
Sun · Oct 5
The long water day
Timeline records an 82.6-mile mixed movement block over more than four hours—kept as on-water evidence with an estimate label, not false precision.
Mon · Oct 6
Home through McMinnville
The route leaves Sale Creek in the morning, crosses Middle Tennessee, and closes back in the Gallatin area that afternoon.
Distance confidence
Useful numbers. Honest labels.
Google recorded 435.8 miles of activity. The 82.6-mile Sunday block is consistent with a long lake movement window but is still labeled as mixed because Timeline classified it as passenger-vehicle travel.Location privacy
The lake section is public. The dot is not.
The public story uses the Sale Creek section. The exact private dock/basecamp and catch point are retained only as private trip evidence.Trip photo archive
Every frame from this trip.
The strongest story photos appear above. The complete published trip gallery stays together here.
