{"id":1827,"date":"2010-09-14T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T04:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2010-10-18T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:09:01","slug":"bear-skull-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/bear-skull-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Skull Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ozarks got a goodly dose of rain from Tropical Storm Hermine last week, but the weather report for the weekend looked like a bust for waterfall shooting – mostly sunny skies. So I was taken aback when I was awakened by a workman on the roof Saturday morning and found the sky completely overcast. Because it was my birthday, Gina said I could do anything I wanted and she wouldn’t protest, so I headed out for the hills to see if the waterfalls were still running. I drove up to Russellville, turned left onto Highway 7 and pulled over to consult the waterfall guidebook. Bear Skull Falls in northern Johnson County looked doable. I threaded my way along a couple of twisty state highways and then onto a dirt road until I hit the Ozark Highlands Trail. The waterfall was about a mile and half down the trail. It was a nice level hike for about three-quarters of mile and then the trail headed down, down, down to the bottom of the drainage. There wasn’t much photo worthy material until I hit the waterfall, which you can’t miss. It’s right next to the trail.<\/p>\n

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The waterfall itself is pretty typical of your Ozarks waterfalls. A small creek that’s probably dry 90 percent of the time runs off one of those shaley ledges into a green plunge pool. It’s decently tall, but not a lot of volume. I spent about an hour and a half shooting the thing as the weather switched back and forth between overcast and bald blue sky. I heard a rumble of thunder a couple of times and caught a brief rain shower. By the time I was ready to leave, the sun came out for good and the humidity climbed to about a million percent. The temp was only in the mid-80s and I was barely moving around, but the sweat poured off me like I was fighting malaria. The uphill hike out of there was about as sweaty a thing as I’ve ever experienced.<\/p>\n

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