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Sunday again. A task at hand to complete. A creek that looks as if it should be perfectly steep enough to keep most off of it. Brookie heaven. The thing with map work is that you just never know how water will accumulate, or not. Water just can't form trout holding pools when it never stops or slows. It just falls and slides, ongoing, continuously, forever.
Beside this dude at a light. Had a ton of fly rods fixed to his roof interior. Rock on.
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LoginThe trail. Steep, but not too long. About .5 miles, however it gains about 325' of elevation in that half-mile or so. Leg burner.
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LoginMissing person clues? Gloves and water bottle just sitting aside the trail. Not a person around.
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LoginHouse-sized boulders, long and slick cascades, and hardly any spot for a trout to reside. During the entire climb to the top, I spot 3-4 pools. Nothing more. I hook up with 2 trout and lose both. A third's shadow is seen scurrying along the bottom after I hook it's pal. No reward for this risky work aside from exploring a stretch that has to be void of people for the majority of time.
My greeting. Never changed. Straight up. About 400' or more gain in elevation within half a mile or so. Damn.
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Login30 ft. up.
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LoginThe top. Finally. A workout. Man made dam?
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LoginLots of laurel love on the way back down. Much more dangerous. 4 times I was sliding down on my backside not knowing for sure where I'd use my feet to stop. Dumb and scary. Several times I was unable to make it back down below the large boulders I was standing on due to several feet of air, and jumping isn't wise. I'd climb up the ridge, and hand limb myself through the rhododendron to get back down the precipice.
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LoginA hell of a trek up and back. Maybe the most physically involved creek I've explored. I climbed up and over every obstacle pictured. Many times I thought I should turn around and head back.
Waterfalls will kick your ass.
Until the next escape, later.