We had a great day today at Chimney Rock, the pseudo-state park here with a wonderful, chimney-like, er, rock. We started our tour of the park with the Hickory Nut Falls trail, winding our away around the mountain to reach the waterfall. Since Western North Carolina (WNC) has been suffering from a drought, the waterfall wasn’t much more than a trickle. One unimpressed visitor called it “some guy pouring a bucket over the top.” The water did reach the ground, however, and provided a nice backdrop as we snacked on trail mix and watched idiot park visitors attempt to scale the sheer cliffs near the falls.
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