Foothills Trail Whitewater Falls to Laurel Valley

**eagleJ** · 09-22-2011, 15:17

Here is a link to my pics from my 32.6 section hike on the Foothills Trail Mon. thru Wed. https://picasaweb.google.com/1008009...ToLaurelValley

**Shug** · 09-22-2011, 15:29

Heck yeah EagleJ.....good too see you out yet again.
Looks nice....very bridgey.
Shug

**eagleJ** · 09-22-2011, 16:19

Originally Posted by Shug

Heck yeah EagleJ.....good too see you out yet again.
Looks nice....very bridgey.
Shug

Yeah lot of bridges on this section and a lot blowdown to get around. Judging from spider webs that I kept walking into not traveled in a while. Also some big old pines, some of them 15 ft. around or more.

Originally Posted by carolinasbackpacker

I took a nice fall at the bottom of UWF about three years ago scrambling over the rocks to get to the bridge. Sprained my knee pretty bad and was in a knee immobilizer for two weeks. Do you still have to scramble over the rocks or did the extend the bridge. It kinda seemed to me that part of it had washed out

That first bridge is still a scramble. There were a lot of steep ascents and descents on this trail. Very few switchbacks just straight up and down on steps.

Originally Posted by dragon360

Very nice scenery. As Shug said - quite a few bridges in that area!

Yeah a lot of creeks and rivers flowing in the area.

**Cookie** · 09-22-2011, 17:00

I took that hike last year. LOTS of steps straight up and down. Tough hike. Great pics thanks!

**eagleJ** · 09-22-2011, 21:06

Originally Posted by Cookie

I took that hike last year. LOTS of steps straight up and down. Tough hike. Great pics thanks!

If those stairs after Toxaway river were any steeper they would be ladders

**Apowell** · 10-06-2011, 14:34

I am about to do this hike in 3 weekends. Any tips?

**Carolina Razorback** · 10-20-2011, 21:32

Originally Posted by eagleJ

Judging from spider webs that I kept walking into not traveled in a while.

This is my home stompin trail,

borned and bred...dem foothills spiders don't waste no time. I have met people coming the opposite way on the trail and walk thru webs not minutes later where they just walked...Im thinking these spiders must be on steroids.

**Rain Man** · 10-24-2011, 09:52

Originally Posted by Carolina Razorback

...Im thinking these spiders must be on steroids.

You would be thinking right! We night-hiked into a couple of webs with huge spiders on them right at nose level, coming out of Oconee State Park in July. Sometimes we saw them in time, ... one time we didn't! Talk about dancing at midnight under the stars!!!

I described these spiders to my friends and family as being about 8 inches across and weighing about half a pound, though that might have been an itsy-bitsy arachnidic exaggeration.

Rain Man

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**swampfox** · 10-24-2011, 18:43

This is a section I still have on my list to do. Awesome trip. Thanks for the pictures.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I described these spiders to my friends and family as being about 8 inches across and weighing about half a pound, though that might have been an itsy-bitsy arachnidic exaggeration.

Rain Man.

I hear they taste like chicken

**carolinasbackpacker** · 09-22-2011, 15:34

I took a nice fall at the bottom of UWF about three years ago scrambling over the rocks to get to the bridge. Sprained my knee pretty bad and was in a knee immobilizer for two weeks. Do you still have to scramble over the rocks or did the extend the bridge. It kinda seemed to me that part of it had washed out