STAND BY ME
The return to the Swamp. Last time I was here I had the kids with me. This time, no kids. Nekoda is out of town and Jadon of course did not want to come (I tried). The hike is easy but is along the active railroad tracks. The first part crosses a railroad bridge in a scene straight out of Stand By Me. This one always freaks me out. A friend of mine mentioned to me once he had a real Stand By Me experience on this bridge and barely made it off in time. Yikes! I did not see any trains on my hike in to the falls but I saw one on the hike back out. I was almost back to the bridge. He was coming along very slowly. So slowly I thought he was going to stop completely. Then when he got about halfway past me (it was a very long train) he sped up and started going quite fast. I think he was just going slowly until all the cars got over the bridge. It took eight minutes for the train to pass me by (I only know that because I was taking video of it – ha ha).
It is not easy walking along the railroad tracks. It is very rocky. I hurt my foot on the treadmill (somehow) the previous day so that made hiking on the rocks much more painful. I trudged on to the waterfall. I got to the viewpoint and took photos. I did not go to the bottom this time.
In case you are wondering I did not just go out on this easy hike to this waterfall which I have been to before. I was going elsewhere. Part 2 is coming …
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