Pigpen Falls and Licklog Falls are in the northwest corner of South Carolina. The trail is accessed by driving Hwy 107 three miles north of Oconee State Park and turning left onto Village Creek Road. A right turn onto gravel Nicholson Ford Road leads to the parking area for the trail.
The trail begins with a .5 [...]
The Holcomb Creek Trail is in a remote area a few miles east of Clayton, Ga. Getting there involved driving 10 miles from Clayton on a winding, twisting backroad. Then I turned left onto Forest Service Road 7, also known as Hale Ridge Road. FS7 is a gravel road, narrow in many places, with a [...]
To visit Ruby Falls, I took a hike underground.
Ruby Falls was discovered by accident. Its discovery resulted from an effort to make a new entrance to the well-known Lookout Mountain Cave, whose entrance had been closed off by railroad construction. A local cave enthusiast named Leo Lambert decided to drill an elevator shaft from another [...]
The second stop on my Canyon Climbers Club Challenge was Cloudland Canyon. I had actually been here a few days before climbing Amicalola Falls, but chose not to attempt the descent into the canyon due to threatening weather conditions. Knowing I had been there and hadn’t made the climb left me feeling like I had unfinished [...]
This is Amicalola Falls. It’s one of my favorite places to go hiking. At 729 feet, Amicalola Falls is the tallest waterfall east of the Rockies. Climbing to the top of this waterfall involves hiking a 1 mile trail from the Visitors Center to the base of the falls and then climbing a 604 step staircase.
This [...]