Silvervale Falls
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canyonwalkerBlue Ridge Trip '24 #16
Blowing Rock, NC - Wed, 4 Sep 2024. 1:15pm
After lunch today in Blowing Rock (and a bit of shopping) we're feeling more ready to go hiking. Except we're starting it easy, with a not-hiking hike. There's a drive-to waterfall just outside of town, Silvervale Falls.
Although this falls is right alongside the road it's a bit hard to find which road it's on. GPS maps indicate it's off the main highway, which... it's not. Unless you drive through some trees and over a cliff. Even walking over this cliff seems dicey. You might break more than a hiking pole trying that with how tall these falls are. 😂
Just because I barely had to do any walking for these falls doesn't mean they don't count as In Beauty I Walk. One, the word "walk" in the Navajo prayer I'm referencing is used broadly to mean the journey through life. And two, I did literally walk. It was all of about 50 steps round trip from my car to the base of the falls and back, but that's still walking. 😂
Blowing Rock, NC - Wed, 4 Sep 2024. 1:15pm
After lunch today in Blowing Rock (and a bit of shopping) we're feeling more ready to go hiking. Except we're starting it easy, with a not-hiking hike. There's a drive-to waterfall just outside of town, Silvervale Falls.
Although this falls is right alongside the road it's a bit hard to find which road it's on. GPS maps indicate it's off the main highway, which... it's not. Unless you drive through some trees and over a cliff. Even walking over this cliff seems dicey. You might break more than a hiking pole trying that with how tall these falls are. 😂
Just because I barely had to do any walking for these falls doesn't mean they don't count as In Beauty I Walk. One, the word "walk" in the Navajo prayer I'm referencing is used broadly to mean the journey through life. And two, I did literally walk. It was all of about 50 steps round trip from my car to the base of the falls and back, but that's still walking. 😂
