Log Hollow Falls
North Carolina Travelog #12
Pisgah National Forest - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 3:30pm
After visiting Discovery Falls atop a steep spur trail off the main route of Log Hollow Road, we hiked back down and continued farther in along Log Hollow. At the next stream crossing there was another falls- this one not up a long, steep side trail but pretty much right there, visible from the main trail.
This is Lower Log Hollow Falls. It's less than 50 yards off the main trail.
While you can see it from the main trail, it looks way better from up close.
I made this close-up picture using the backcountry waterfalls photography technique I wrote about in my previous blog. It's really effective, and beats lugging my nice tripod around on all my backcountry hikes.
"Wait," you might be thinking, "You called this Lower Log Hollow Falls a moment ago. That implies the existence of at least an Upper Falls, right?"
Yup. Though not everyone knows it's there!
We knew it was there because the great trail description on AllTrails.com told us it was there and showed it on a contour map. And the volunteer at the ranger station yesterday told us, too. But as easily as this knowledge came to us, it clearly eludes a lot of other people. Hikers who arrived at the lower falls ahead of us turned around and left the area without even looking for the upper falls. The trail itself is not obvious unless you've been advised where to find it. As you can see in the photo above, it's faint in some places and also steep.
Upper Log Hollow Falls is another of those falls that's pretty tall when viewed from a distance but you can't see all of it up close. That's okay; what we saw here at the base where we rested for a while was plenty beautiful. (BTW, this is another backcountry monopod picture, @ 0.1 sec.)
In beauty I walk.
Pisgah National Forest - Thu, 21 Sep 2023. 3:30pm
After visiting Discovery Falls atop a steep spur trail off the main route of Log Hollow Road, we hiked back down and continued farther in along Log Hollow. At the next stream crossing there was another falls- this one not up a long, steep side trail but pretty much right there, visible from the main trail.
This is Lower Log Hollow Falls. It's less than 50 yards off the main trail.
While you can see it from the main trail, it looks way better from up close.
I made this close-up picture using the backcountry waterfalls photography technique I wrote about in my previous blog. It's really effective, and beats lugging my nice tripod around on all my backcountry hikes.
"Wait," you might be thinking, "You called this Lower Log Hollow Falls a moment ago. That implies the existence of at least an Upper Falls, right?"
Yup. Though not everyone knows it's there!
We knew it was there because the great trail description on AllTrails.com told us it was there and showed it on a contour map. And the volunteer at the ranger station yesterday told us, too. But as easily as this knowledge came to us, it clearly eludes a lot of other people. Hikers who arrived at the lower falls ahead of us turned around and left the area without even looking for the upper falls. The trail itself is not obvious unless you've been advised where to find it. As you can see in the photo above, it's faint in some places and also steep.
Upper Log Hollow Falls is another of those falls that's pretty tall when viewed from a distance but you can't see all of it up close. That's okay; what we saw here at the base where we rested for a while was plenty beautiful. (BTW, this is another backcountry monopod picture, @ 0.1 sec.)
In beauty I walk.