More of Karen’s Waterfall Adventures!!

More of Karen’s Waterfall adventures!!!

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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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