Random Photos

Random photos again! All of these are from 2006 and were taken in the southern Appalachians.

My occasional hiking pal Johnny Corn setting up a photo on a bridge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Jack Thyen (in front) and Hank Pownell (behind Jack). Haven't seen Hank in a few years, but he and his wife own a historic house in Burlington, NC.

Jack standing before one of the big poplar trees on the Boogerman Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Me, at Rowland Creek Falls in Virginia. One of the nicest waterfalls I've hiked to when I was on my own.

Our old white Nissan Frontier and our Casita at Hurricane Campground in southwest Virginia. This is among the nicest campgrounds we've ever visited. I really want to go back there.

I think this is Rowland Creek Falls again, but I'm not positive.

I've been told this set of falls is called Baby Falls.

Quartz outcrop on Sam Knob here in North Carolina.

Sam Knob, one of the South's sixty or so peaks that exceed 6,000 feet in elevation.

Elk in Cataloochee in the Great Smokies.

In the Bald River Gorge Wilderness Area in Tennessee.

My Favorite Waterfall

This waterfall (it has no name) was pretty much my favorite one of the day. It was below Yucca Falls and was part of an extensive series of slides and cascades that led down to this pretty darned spectacular view. I think that if you climbed the slope on the right you might be able to find a spot where you could see more of these slides and cascades as a single piece.

In this video are Boone the Dog, Jack Thyen on the right, Andy Kunkle on the left, and Johnny Corn at the highest point.