Connestee Falls, NC

Mom and Dad were really lucky to live up in Brevard, NC for a few years. Their neighborhood, that is very similar to a very mountainous version of Big Canoe, is named Connestee Falls after the HUGE falls at the beginning of the neighborhood. Here are a few pictures from the various trips we've taken. One in particular, we decided we'd go off the trail and slide downhill to see what the bottom of the waterfalls look like. AMAZING!




Little bridge to cross over on the way to the waterfalls overlook.


And here they are. The falls actually drop down past this but you can't see it past the overlook. At the bottom of the falls, you really can't see up towards the top of the falls either because it makes a turn somewhere in between.



Megan, Dani, and Steve


Big ice storm on this trip. Megan and Caitlin at the same overlook.



HA! Here's what they called the caves. Not really a cave... more like an overhang.




Snowy trail


Caitlin and Marquardt playing with the ice.

Here's the area that we decided to hop off the trail. It doesn't look too steep here, but that's just the mountain laurel getting in the way. We pretty much had to use the trees as ladders or just sit on our butts and slide down hill. We also didn't go up this way to get out. We took the old hiking trail that was closed- for some reason.


The bottom of the falls. Such pretty shoals coming from them. So peaceful. This is what I want in my backyard one day.







Believe it or not, this is actually the bottom of the falls. You can't even tell that there are such a huge set of falls above these.

This picture gives the falls some scale.

Looking up towards the bottom of the falls.

This is us on the upper portion of the falls....where we aren't supposed to be. HA!

And this is us getting back to the car with a note from dad fussing at us for getting off the trail. hehehe! He must have saw us on the falls.

Such a beautiful place!