** If you are hoping to do a TMT through hike/run, there is a section between Middle Tiger and Zeig's Zag that is impassible due to the trail being decimated by logging. ** (I didn't check the WTA site before I went or I would have seen the closure notice!)
I started from the South Tiger Mountain trailhead and went northbound on the TMT. When you get to Zieg's Zag (see picture #! - sign on tree), the original TMT goes across a tiny stream and heads uphill to the left. There is a new trail that heads to your right. It bypasses a lot of the logging (which I only figured out on the return!) and goes around the east side of the knoll where the trail used to go around the west side. The new trail is beautiful, but it ends with a closure sign before you can get to the junction of the TMT with Middle Tiger. I tried bushwacking through the logging debris - it was nasty work and I gave up and turned around.
I am really saddened by all the logging on Tiger Mountain.
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