Archive for December, 2015

Mystery Falls – 11-28-2015

On the third ride of the Camel Servicer`s Union for this season it was decided that due to the unusual warm weather that we were having that we would make a trip to what we have been calling Mystery Falls. The name was actually given by our late and great friend Dave Aldridge as he spied the upper drop of them from far off in the distance when looking for the way to Twisting Falls on the Elk River. He asked me to find the way to Twisting Falls for him and take him there and as I showed him the way he pointed out the ‘Mystery Falls‘ he had found on his previous trip. The Camel Servicer`s proceeded down towards the river and Twisting Falls and upon reaching the river just above them we then saw the lower drop of Mystery Falls where it drops into the river from high above. These are most impressive falls and after researching them and speaking to many of the areas oldest locals, I was amazed that few knew about them and that a name had never been given. I guess Mystery Falls it shall be !

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Lower drop of Mystery Falls

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Posted on 23 December '15 by , under RATtreks. 2 Comments.

Slot Canyon Falls – 11-21-2015

After a week of healing it was again time for the Camel Servicer`s to embark upon the second surf of the waterfall season. This epic selection of waves would again be found deep in the backwoods of the East Tennessee hills in yet another lost hollow on Unaka that has not seen any signs of humans in many decades. Starting at the top it is instantly apparent as to why as,  the terrain is insanely steep with no traces of a trail anywhere with some of the thickest laurel hells that I have ever attempted to go through. There were very few times that the creek could even be seen for them and soon enough the terrain turned into cliffs on both sides that would be the foundations for the many unknown and unnamed waterfalls that we call the Slot Canyon Falls.

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Upper Slot Canyon Falls

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Posted on 10 December '15 by , under RATtreks. No Comments.