Since Saturday was our last free weekend day until who-knows-when, we decided to go hiking at Jones Gap State Park in northern Greenville County. It’s one of our favorite places to go. In fact, a few months ago we went with Abby and Lincoln to a different part of the park.
When we got there, the park ranger told us that the trail we wanted to take was closed because of a landslide. The other possible trail was in the process of being closed, so we could take only the first half of it. We decided that would be fine (it was still at 2.1 mi hike each way). There was a neat cave at the top.
On our way up, we saw the landslide. Pretty incredible. Unfortunately, there was no good way to get a picture of it. We could see why they wanted to close the trail. There was a great gash in the side of the hill and piles of trees at the bottom.
Our trail took us about halfway up the side of the ridge and we hiked past a lot of smaller rapids (though we didn’t get to see any waterfalls this time).
I’ve added some of the pictures to the gallery (and reorganized the gallery some too)
I liked the photos taken with the slower shutter speeds.
Jones Gap offers some pleasant hiking. We’ve gone there several times.