More of Karen's Waterfall adventures!!!
The waterfall project continues. This weekend I finally "captured" a
waterfall I've been trying to find for weeks. It's on the 'net, but never
with any directions. I found clues here and there and finally put them
altogether and got to the right place and found it!
Then today my sister and I went up to Cloudland Canyon State Park. I had
wanted to get there several weeks ago, but when I called them they said the
falls were dry. So after all the rain we've had lately, I called yesterday
and they said the falls had lots of water...so we went!
We only did the waterfall trail, which is probably less than 2 miles total
out and back, but it's tough. In fact it's a lot like doing Tallulah
Gorge...lots of steps right down the side of the canyon and then side trails
to the falls. The first 2 are the "show pieces" of the park. They are each
fall over a sheer cliff into a small pool, but then below them are lots of
smaller falls with 2 forming together a falls of may 5 or 6 feet, then
there's a bridge over the creek that takes you to another trail, and the
bridge is right over the top of another falls - maybe 10 or 12 feet high.
Then there's ANOTHER one a little further down that's may 6 feet high. And
finally, back at the top of the gorge, there's a viewpoint where you can see
a long, cascading waterfall coming over the side of the gorge. Altogether
that's 6 falls. There may actually be more along that trail at the bottom
of the gorge, but we just didn't have time to go any further.
The trail down has, I think, 600 steps - so that 600 down and then 600 back
up. But even going as slowly as I usually go, we did the whole thing - all
of the falls, in just over 2 hours. Not bad!
So I've been working on putting together a slide show of my pictures and I'm
pleased to be able to say that I've done 98 waterfalls this year! That's
counting "double" falls as 2 falls - which, of course, they really are
anyway. I didn't set out to get to see so many in just my first year of
hunting waterfalls, so I was quite surprised that it came out to so many!
Karen T.
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Wish I had known you were heading that way, there is another water falls just north in the private Lula Land Trust property
" MoBill "
Posted by: Bill | December 14, 2010 at 07:58 AM