02/27/10 Key Mill Branch Hike

[weathermansam]

Great hike with Wild South yesterday, pully and his dad were there as well.  A much slower hiking experience than I'm accustomed too, but overall enjoyable.  The sun was a huge huge problem with photography, and there are several photo worthy waterfalls here.  There were also a number of fossils to be seen, some in the stream bed, along with chunks of petrified wood pully and I found in one of the overhangs.  Overall we saw 8 waterfalls, though some of these were off trail adventures that pully and myself photographed without the group.  There were also 4 "H" trees, and one possible arborglyph, but whatever was there was incredibly faded an almost impossible to decipher.  In one of the caves there was an inscription that read "1904 with the initial KE and WMW spaced apart a little.  

The Photos:
http://www.weathermansam..../022710keymill/index.html

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[Pathfinder]

I seriously wanted to go on this particular hike, but I couldn't squeeze it in.  I'm glad you guys went and had a good experience.  I look forward to the posting of your pictures.

[weathermansam]

I seriously wanted to go on this particular hike, but I couldn't squeeze it in.  I'm glad you guys went and had a good experience.  I look forward to the posting of your pictures.

I edited the original post and added a link for the photos.  Here's one of my personal favorites...note pully in one of the holes on the right

[Southlady]

Seriously beautiful places!

[Pully]

It was a nice hike. The sun was definitely messing with the photography. The tallest waterfall, which should be called Slippy Mud Falls, was almost impossible to get a good shot of due to the sun. We saw one of the coolest bluffs I've seen in Bankhead which was where the inscription was located. Here's more pictures. Pictures

[Pathfinder]

Pully, I can tell by your photos that the bluff is beyond awesome.  I'll be planning a trip their myself when I can.  As always, thanks for posting pictures.

[Joshua Szulecki]

Slower? I better get with WildSouth. Good photography and fast hiking are mutually exclusive.

Sounds like a blast. I really wanted to go on this one, but I totally forgot about it until it was too late.

[Uncle Wayne]

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.  We had hoped to join in on this hike but had to change our plans at the last minute.  I've never been there before.  Who led the hike?

[weathermansam]

Slower? I better get with WildSouth. Good photography and fast hiking are mutually exclusive.

Sounds like a blast. I really wanted to go on this one, but I totally forgot about it until it was too late.

Eh, 4 miles in 5 hrs....but I treat photography as almost an afterthought sometimes.  Pully and myself saw 8 waterfalls whereas most of the others saw 5.  I did get mistaken for being 18 or 19, so that made the hike even better!  

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.  We had hoped to join in on this hike but had to change our plans at the last minute.  I've never been there before.  Who led the hike?

Janice Barrett I think was her name.  Incredibly soft spoken and hard to hear most of the time, but a nice lady.