Gina and I enjoyed the leaf colors on our drive to Summerville. On the way we stopped at Mack White Gap and picked up trash in the Pinhoti Trail parking lot. After lunch we drove to Trion and took Mountain View Road until it became Narrows Road where I took a peak photo. At the top Narrows Road becomes Narrows Picnic Road where we turned right to the trailhead where we picked up more trash. We hiked the Pinhoti Trail, this part of which is a former access road to the old fire lookout tower on the highest point of Taylor Ridge. Picking up more trash along the trail, Gina turned back about a half mile up while I continued to the top. On the way up I cleared a path to stoop under a blowdown, and on the way back down I took the primitive bypass trail with a steep cross slope. Fairly open forest on the downhill side of the trail appears to have been harvested in recent years and provides many peeks at the ridges and valleys of this part of northwest Georgia. Near the top of the ridge line at a boulder, the Pinhoti Trail continues straight while the old access road turns sharply to the old tower site. The tower was removed, but I found two anchor blocks and other evidence of construction. I picked up more trash at the top, some of which looked like it had been there since the tower was in use. On the way down I met a couple of backpackers from Washington state who were hiking south from the northern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail. As we were talking, a yellow jacket flew by my head, and a beetle landed on his arm. He said it was just a ladybird beetle, also known as a ladybug, but I pointed out the dark orange back of this invasive impostor and warned him that they sting. We decided to get moving to keep the bugs away.