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Vacation Day Four

7/13/22

Family Vacation Day Four: Fiery Gizzard Loop Trail, South Cumberland State Park – 10 miles:

Just the three of us today (Patricia and Rachel took a “pass day”).

It’s 6am and we are ready to go!

The rock formations were already impressive.

What a great start to the trail!

Namaste .

🧘‍♀️ — Namaste .

Beautiful .

Pretty cascades.

Not much flowing water here!

Little did we know how many rocks and stairs awaited us on this hike!

Waterfall number two!

The happy couple .

This pathway was so pretty!

The Chimney.

Waterfall number three.

The very happy couple .

Ready for a lot of adventures today!

Beautiful .

We were up for the challenge . . .well, we did keep going on the trail, but we took the 9 mile loop.

She’s okay, but after countless slips, slides and falls Lizzy got her trail name “Slip, Slide, Splash”.

She likes the wildlife!

Ugh, a slug! She named him ” Mattachiah”.

Waterfall number four!

The rocks were relentless for this 4.5 miles stretch. This really was a challenging hike.

She named him “Jimmy”.

I asked her to demonstrate the nature of this hike.

So cute

We were pretty tired at this point with 4.3 miles left on this trail and another 1.5 miles back to the car.

Yellow Spotted Millipede.

Looking over the ledge is fun.

Enjoying the view at Werner’s Point.

Mom in her happy place.

Straight down drop.

Beautiful!

Chicken Of The Woods and it is edible.

We enjoyed a wedding ceremony of our own.

We both “Do”.

The extremely happy couple .

Chandelier.

This was is the water nearby.

Time to go check out a coal mine:

An entrance to the coal mine.

Now time to focus on heading back to the waterfalls for a quick swim to cool off.

We had to trudge through more rocks. Ugh!

Definitely time for a swim after all that!

Yes, it’s pretty cool water.

Wow!

Beautiful

Fishin for crawfish.

She named him “Bert”.

She named this one “Ernie”.

Time to keep moving towards the trailhead.

“Resting” on the bridge.

We took another route back and saw waterfall #5.

Two more “friends” named Gerald (the frog) and Jeremy (the fly).

This was a 9 hour adventure. We did it!

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