{"id":2163,"date":"2011-02-26T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2011-02-26T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:29:58","slug":"indian-creek-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/26\/indian-creek-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Creek Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My buddy Kurt and I hiked Indian Creek in the Buffalo National River<\/a> a week ago. The creek is home to two waterfalls highlighted in the Tim Ernst Arkansas Waterfalls book<\/a>: Copperhead Falls (seen above with Kurt posing) and Tunnel Cave Falls, formed by water exiting a cave. The trail begins at the campground at Kyle’s Landing and runs a little over two miles up into a box canyon. It’s a great hike. The park service doesn’t maintain the trail and it gets pretty rough in some places. I wouldn’t recommend it for the weak-ankled.<\/p>\n

This was a weird hike photographically for me. I didn’t take many photos. For one thing, I did this hike a couple of years ago<\/a> and shot a bunch of photos then. For another thing, I usually do these long hikes alone, which leaves me free to screw around and shoot photos that don’t end up being any good. Because I had a companion on this trip, I had other things to do, mainly flapping my gums with Kurt. For some reason I can’t seem to talk and take pictures at the same time. Kurt, however, had his camera out the whole time shooting me and the scenery and handing me his camera so I could shoot him and the scenery together. I didn’t mind. It’s more fun to have somebody along. Finally, Kurt asked me if I was going to take a photo of anything at all. So I snapped out of it and shot a bunch pictures of him in action. <\/p>\n

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This is my favorite one. Kurt emerging from the pit toilet at Kyle’s Landing with the sunset in the background. <\/p>\n

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The namesake cave for Tunnel Cave Falls is closed to explorers, but even if it wasn’t off-limits it appears a dicey proposition to enter it with it being 30 feet up a sheer bluff wall. No, I didn’t take a photo of the cave itself. I told you I didn’t do a very good job with the photography. The waterfall was dry, anyway.<\/p>\n

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I did manage to provide Kurt with a nice profile photo for his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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