Muir Waterfall

[drbreuer]

wanted to know if anyone knew where this waterfall was in Muir

[pigsteak]

aprox. across from the hideout I believe....just a guess.

[Liz_Weber]

This is photo of Nellie's Falls in Calvin Hollow taken in the winter. The water flow this time of year is not as spectacular, but the hike back is very scenic and well worth the effort. Locate the largest Sycamore tree near the creek (Lower Smokey Fork) and cross here. You will need to bushwhack about 100 yards before reaching the cleared area where the branch creek opens up to easy hiking up to the falls. Follow this branch creek (solid stone bottom) all the way to the falls with only a couple short places where you need to get up on the bank to pass a deep spot. This time of year the water flow is low enough that you can virtually walk the creek like a sidewalk.

Please do NOT climb up to the rock cliffs from the creek. There is to be no route development in this hollow until a cliffline trail is built. Hiking up to the walls from the creek will damage fragile vegetation including fields of ferns. Look up; the rock is breathtaking.

Liz

[ynot]

Muir? Shoulda named it Liz's Garden.

[Toad]

Muir must be a really cool place to have a frozen waterfall in August.

[Liz_Weber]

Muir must be a really cool place to have a frozen waterfall in August.

This is photo of Nellie's Falls in Calvin Hollow taken in the winter. The water flow this time of year is not as spectacular...

[Toad]

I guess the play on words was lost somewhere in between your literalness and my inablility to read every line of every post. My bad.

[OB Juan]

Liz, Do the falls freeze up enough for ice climbing and if so is it permitted?

[Liz_Weber]

Sorry, OB, KY weather is just too mild and variable to produce predictable quality of ice for climbing. Therefore, we are not able to accommodate ice climbing at Muir.

Last year we did suspend an old climbing rope from one of the taller falls to see if it would seed the build-up of a column of ice. Although we did get a continuous column of ice, it was nothing of the size and quality that would be required to support a climber's weight.

As a point of possible interest, we do often get substantial ice build-up at the top of some of the cliffs. In the springtime it sounds like a symphony of crescendos as one by one those huge (sometimes 500 pounds) chunks of ice melt enough to come crashing to the ground. Those “pathsâ€

[OB Juan]

Thanks Liz, I kinda thought that might be the case but hoped if the location, and direction(NE facing) were present along with the right conditions it might make for a fun winters day.