{"id":2602,"date":"2022-12-04T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2022-12-04T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T17:53:23","slug":"vacation-day-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Day Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

7\/20\/22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family Vacation Day Eleven: Cumberland Trail Piney River and Piney Falls- 9 miles. We also set up camp at Fall Creek Falls Campgrounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful start to the hike.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Piney River was pretty along the first half of the hike.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So pretty!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little cascades along the way.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We found some sections of the river with this blue-green tint.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice rock formations.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Double butterflies.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Still smiling despite the heat!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Relaxing on this hot day.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lookin like a country girl!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Catching something in the water… any guesses what she caught?<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can you see the little Tadpole.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Namaste\u00a0\"\ud83e\uddd8\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Skipping rocks championship\u00a0\"\ud83c\udfc6\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A blue butterfly landed on Rachel’s finger!!!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The official rock skipping champion. Rachel bet him a dollar he couldn’t skip it all the way across. He won $1.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Halfway end pic. Now off to our next adventure.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We met a nice couple at the trailhead who offered to take our pic.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lizzy and Mom beat everyone down to the loop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course they waited.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We got a little lost, well, not lost exactly, but we were having trouble finding the trail.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So we explored…<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rachel and Patricia waited *patiently while we searched for the trail. *Not really.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mom discovered this cool spot while I was looking for the trail.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We found it and ended up at the middle section of the waterfall.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Behind the waterfall.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rachel and Patricia stayed up top.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lizzy, Sullivan and Mom went down to the bottom pool of water.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We fed the fish!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Skipped rocks.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And relaxed\u00a0\"\ud83d\udc99\".<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back on the trail:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American abrupt-bulbed Lepidella Mushroom – poisonous!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had quite a day! Time to go set up camp at Fall Creek Falls Campgrounds.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Awesome helper.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Awesome helper.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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S’mores!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That was a very action packed day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}