Clifty Falls

With Rachel at Memaw and Papa's for the week, Dusty and I decided to take a couple days for a quick fun trip.  The destination - Clifty Falls State Park.  I had never visited this park and had heard that the hiking there was good so off we went.

Clifty Falls.  There were 4 waterfalls in the park.  None of them had a lot of volume but they were fairly tall

Cake rock...because it looks like a wedge of cake

This was the entrance to the tunnel we hiked through.  It was a man made tunnel that was constructed over 160 years ago in an attempt to bring a railroad to the area.  The project was abandoned when it was deemed too hard to complete.

Getting dripped on

Yes, I am a person that will stop hiking for a few minutes to photograph bugs

We came across these rock stacks in the creek bed.  I decided to build my own and picked up a rock.  Dusty said, "be careful".  Looked down and was greeted by this guy!

So of course I spent several moments photographing him.  Clifty has 10 trails.  2 are marked easy or moderate.  The rest are rugged/very rugged.  This is a trail...

This also is a trail.  Trail 2 is simply "hike back up the creek"  Thankfully I didn't twist and ankle.  That in itself is a small miracle...I'm accident prone in that area!

I estimated we hiked at least 5.5 miles...all on the rugged trails.   I figured we got our fair share of exercise, the benefit that we promptly blew on pizza and ice cream!