{"id":1107,"date":"2013-11-05T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T00:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:38:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T01:38:33","slug":"lake-jocassee-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/lake-jocassee-area\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Lake Jocassee area…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This update is a special dedicace to Janet & Jonathan who adviced me to go discover this area during a great diner together at their house. Remember, it’s the couple I met some weeks ago at North Mills River and who are real friends now, with who I had a great mountain bike ride.
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\nThe second very technical track that I mentioned in the previous update was heading to discover the Mill Creek Falls that Janet & Jonathan – I will call them J&J now \ud83d\ude09 – had told me about. Since the season of the canoe rental company was done now, I had to get there by land. By studying the detailed forest service maps, I discovered what appeared to be a dirt road. In fact, it is probably an abandoned forest road, a good ten miles long, climbing steep hillsides to go down on the other side just as steep!
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\n0) Morning light on Horsepasture River
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\n1) Small creek crossing…
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\n2) Banked turn…
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\nIt took me almost three hours to go 7 miles – crossing South Carolina border – before being stopped by a large fallen tree in the way that I couldn’t cut with my handsaw. So I took the bike to continue but after 2 miles pushing and carrying more than riding it, I left it to continue on foot. The last 2.5 miles held more rainforest than anything else as the vegetation was so dense. Without machete, I took almost two hours to finally arrive to the lake, without open area to photograph the waterfall falling in the lake. So I took off my hiking shoes and got wet feet for taking what is really not my best picture! But I post it anyway for Janet & Jonathan… \ud83d\ude09
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\n3) Mill Creek Falls
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\nThe way back was just as long and I was out of the forest late afternoon. I still did a short stop beautiful Whitwater Upper Falls, with the advantage that Sunday evening, I was almost alone there…
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\n4) Upper Whitewater Falls
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\nThe next day I continued exploring the surroundings of this beautiful lake. First by visiting the pretty nice Twin Falls…
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\n5) Twin Falls
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\nThen taking a new forest road way more accessible than the previous one, reaching one of the only open promontory of the area as the forest is everywhere, named Jumping-Off Rock. The sighting of the Lake Jocassee is just gorgious and I pulled the pan head to show it to you in two panoramas taken about fifteen minutes apart…
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\n6) & 7) Lake Jocasse from Jumping-Off Rock
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\nHaving slept close, I went back there the next morning and it was freezing…
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\n8) Lake Jocasse
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\nStill thanks to the USFS maps downloaded on my iPad, I spotted a trail down to the lake, at the end of a peninsula. I discovered a small very nice beach here…
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\n9) Last land of the peninsula!
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\n10) & 11) Vegetal…
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\n12) Small hidden beach…
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\nThat’s it for my small Jocasse trip. I will show you other waterfalls in my next update… \ud83d\ude00
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\nThanks to all who follow that blog – and for the comments you write; I really enjoy to read them after each update… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

See you soon
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\nPS : I almost forgot: Janet makes the best brownies I’ve ever eaten! Yes, you can be jealous… \ud83d\ude09
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