Monthly Archives: March 2016

Yellow Branch Falls, Issaqueena Falls, & Stumphouse Tunnel, March 29, 2016

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Yellow Branch Falls, Issaqueena Falls, and Stumphouse Tunnel
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Yellowbranch Falls
Reading about Issaqueena
Stumphouse Tunnel info
Inside Stumphouse tunnel
Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
Stumphouse Tunnel
Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Stumphouse Tunnel
Fiddleheads!
Heartleaf flowers (Hexastylis shuttleworthii?))
More fiddleheads!
Stumphouse Tunnel
Robin’s plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)
Rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
Dwarf iris (Iris verna)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Inside Stumphouse Tunnel
Issaqueena Falls
Issaqueena Overlook
Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

Photography by Duane Bowker, Dee Campbell, & Paula Swartz

Laurel Fork Creek, March 22, 2016

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March 22, 2016
Laurel Fork Creek
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Yellow violet
Blue violet
Creek crossing along the trail
Oconee bell (Shortia galacifolia)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed (Stellaria pubera)
Perfoliate bellwort (Uvularia perfoliata)
Robin’s plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)
Foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Crossing Laurel Fork
Crossing Laurel Fork
Top of Laurel Fork Falls
Laurel Fork Falls
Oconee bells (Shortia galacifolia)
Moss growin’
Virginia Hawkins Falls
Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

Photography by Duane Bowker & Paula Swartz

King Creek Falls and the Chattooga River, March 15, 2016

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King Creek Falls and the Chattooga River
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Chattooga River
P&J along the trail
Chattooga River
Chattooga River
Chattooga River
First Yellow Violets of the Spring
King Creek Falls
Drift Wood at King Creek Falls
First Yellow Violets of the Spring
Remember “Deliverance”?
Lunch beside the Chattooga
Chattooga River
Driftwood
Chattooga River
Lunch break

Photography by Hugh Comfort, Sam Henley, & Paula Swartz

Hike from Camp Adger Road to the petroglyphs on Pinnacle Mountain, Jim Timmerman Natural Resource Area, March 1, 2016

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Hike from Camp Adger Road to the petroglyphs on Pinnacle Mountain, Jim Timmerman Natural Resource Area
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Pinnacle Mountain
Pinnacle Mountain
Pinnacle Mountain – expecting rain?
Pinnacle Mountain petroglyphs
Pinnacle Mountain petroglyphs
Pinnacle Mountain lunch

Photography by Sam Henley