Opossum Creek Falls

Today was the monthly ladies hike where we journeyed to Opossum Creek Falls, a moderately strenuous hike that was a total of 5 miles round trip.   And strenuous means that the hills were steep going up and down.  The ankle held up fine but the lungs were screaming for me to breathe deeper.  I am sure everyone's heart rate was at the max except maybe for our guide, Dan and one of the other ladies who is a runner.  


I loved the hike though and the scenery was great.    We got to follow the creek most of the trail and made a turn where the creek widens and flows into the Chattooga River.   We then walked up hill about 3/10ths of a mile, had to rock hop over the creek (yeah me! as this was a little scary as the water was rolling fast), then a short climb to the bottom of the falls.

A very long day, getting up at 5:30am, left at 6:15am to pick up the ladies who were meeting me for the ride up to the mountains.   The drive up and back was about 6 hours total, then we spent about 3 hours hiking.   So this girl is going to get a good hot soak for her old body and go to bed early!    I will look at journals tomorrow!      We had another hiker at the falls to take this photo of all of us as there was not a good flat rock that I could use with the self timer.     He did a good job!


A few other scenes in the extras, the rock crossing the creek and the Chattooga River.