
Today, I got to walk in a cloud all day long. Last night storms left there area warm (60's) and humid, so not much view to see today, but plenty of waterfalls. The first was Hillard falls. The first drop ran down a rock face and spilled in a pool, then the lower portion had a nice cascade, cool little side trip. I hiked on to the Whitewater falls area and took side trails to both the lower and upper falls.
Both of the falls huge, there was a lot of water falling a far way.The pict really doesn't do it justice.
Hiking between the two falls was a nice trail that parallel the river, there's no camping in the whitewater corridor so the land isn't scared at all from people "enjoying" nature. Its nice that some areas are
protected, but it also means you have to keep hiking even though you want to stop and make camp. Of course, after leaving the Whitewater area, you are greeted with a climb. Hikes another 15ish miles today, and made camp, by far my favorite camp, up on top of Grassy Knob-a few miles west of the falls. I actually saw the place i wanted to camp, hike a while more to get some water, then retraced my step back to the spot. It was on top of a ridge overlooking two lakes
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