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Vacation Day Eleven

7/20/22

Family Vacation Day Eleven: Cumberland Trail Piney River and Piney Falls- 9 miles. We also set up camp at Fall Creek Falls Campgrounds.

We planned to hike to Stinging Fork Falls which we thought was a 9 mile hike. We didn’t make it. . . more on that later.

Beautiful start to the hike.

The Piney River was pretty along the first half of the hike.

So pretty!

Little cascades along the way.

We found some sections of the river with this blue-green tint.

Nice rock formations.

Double butterflies.

Still smiling despite the heat!

Relaxing on this hot day.

Lookin like a country girl!

Catching something in the water… any guesses what she caught?

Can you see the little Tadpole.

Namaste .

Skipping rocks championship .

A blue butterfly landed on Rachel’s finger!!!

The official rock skipping champion. Rachel bet him a dollar he couldn’t skip it all the way across. He won $1.

We made our way up some serious elevation and realized that this trail was 8 miles point to point so it would have been a 16+ mile hike. Not today! We headed back down and decided to go to Piney Falls.

Halfway end pic. Now off to our next adventure.

We met a nice couple at the trailhead who offered to take our pic.

Lizzy and Mom beat everyone down to the loop.

Of course they waited.

We got a little lost, well, not lost exactly, but we were having trouble finding the trail.

So we explored…

Rachel and Patricia waited *patiently while we searched for the trail. *Not really.

Mom discovered this cool spot while I was looking for the trail.

We found it and ended up at the middle section of the waterfall.

Behind the waterfall.

Rachel and Patricia stayed up top.

Lizzy, Sullivan and Mom went down to the bottom pool of water.

We fed the fish!

Skipped rocks.

And relaxed .

Back on the trail:

American abrupt-bulbed Lepidella Mushroom – poisonous!

We had quite a day! Time to go set up camp at Fall Creek Falls Campgrounds.

Awesome helper.

Awesome helper.

S’mores!

That was a very action packed day!

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