Parked at the Greys Arch Trailhead, there were only a couple of cars in the lot, much different than the weekend before. I headed off towards Greys Arch and took a couple of the side paths before stopping for a lunch with a view.
Then Greys Arch
Then a beer and a view on Hanson's Point.
Lots of wildflowers along the trails.
Still love the Mountain Laurel
Looks like a coreopsis of some sort
might be "annual fleabane" Erigeron annuus
Yellow Stargrass?
Blackberries
Tree root and sandstone
"spikenard" Aralia racemosa ?
coreopsis?
Blueberries?
Only saw two groups of people. The first group of 6 or so college looking kids made lots of noise before I was 10 minutes down the trail, I just stayed off the trail and they never saw me. The second group was 5 guys from Cleveland that were down backpacking for a couple of days. They had a little bit of info about the area from a friend and were trying to get to the river to swim/jump off of a rock they had heard about. I showed them where they were on my phone and described the trail up to the swinging bridge and jump rock, hopefully they had a good time.
All in all, a great 5 hours in the gorge.
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