Moore Cove Falls Pisgah National Forest An easy .7 mile hike along a wildflower laden trail leads to this lovely little grotto and the 50 ft. tall Moore Cove Falls in Pisgah National Forest. I could seriously go on and on about how much I hate sunlight but that's neither here nor there, looks like I got a shot I like. This is another one that requires a morning visit when the sun is behind the mountain or a cloudy day, and next time I'm going to take a lot more perspectives than I did this time.
Last time I was in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest and visited Log Hollow Branch it was raining and I remember as we drove up Forest Road 475 B aka Headwater Rd there were waterfalls visible all over the place, across the ravine and down in the roadside creek so on this latest trip when we left Log Hollow I had my passenger and good friend Karl Hassel hang his head out the window and see what he could see. We saw one waterfall through the trees across the ravine but it didn't look like it was too friendly of a scramble to get to. Further down the road however it was a completely different story, as down in the creek we saw another waterfall, one that we could possibly get to and after a quick inspection we saw a fairly easy trail that led down to it. There wasn't much room for us to park roadside, and I should have taken a photograph of how close the tires were to the edge of a 40 ft drop off, but we squeezed in and headed on down. Once we made our way to the falls it was quite obvious it was worth the trip as it offered numerous perspectives to shoot, this one being my favorite. At the time I had no idea if the waterfall had a name or not, I imagined not, I was just going to call it the falls on whatever creek it's on, turns out after I picked up a regional waterfall map it was called the Falls On Rockhouse Creek which sounded good to me
Slick Rock Falls in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest is one of those falls that one is amazed it's even on a map as a listed waterfall. When I first visited here it was after the area had been hit with 10 inches of snow and there was enough of a warm up to make the flow cute. The second time I visited it wasn't worth shooting and I decided I was never going to bother with this falls again. Well, as the old saying goes, "never say never." While waiting for some heavy rain to let up before hiking to the waterfall on Cedar Rock Creek I realized that the nearby roadside waterfall that I never would visit again was worth checking out. So, in the cars we hopped and made the quick journey there. It was a good call, the falls was flowing the most I'd ever seen, and that includes from other photographs. We waited a while for the rain to let up and Jeremy and Karl were the first to make the short hike to the falls. I waited a bit a longer as I was getting my stuff together and began to make the ascent when a loud clap of thunder was followed by another bout of heavy rain. Not in a position to get my umbrella out I stood under a nearby informational sign. After about 10 minutes it let up again and I made my way to the falls. The trail takes you to the base of the falls offering a side view which really isn't all that great, downstream from the falls I saw Jeremy and Karl had set up in front of a swirl in the creekbed. Not one to pass up a swirl I made my way down and set up. Boy do I hate shooting in rain, but there was no way I was going to pass up this comp. Karl and Jeremy finished up and moved to new spots just in time for another storm to show up and the skies opened up with more rain and thunder, unfazed I shot away, capturing a handful of shots before the pouring rain completely broke up the swirls. I stood there for a short time, contemplating waiting out the storm but then I realized that I was standing in a creek bed in a torrential downpour and it might not be such a good idea, so I packed up and headed back to the car which leads to another story I'll save for another time.
