Picture it: Craggy Gardens trailhead, Blue Ridge Mountains, June 11, 2010. A young, semi-adventurous couple out for a leisurely easy-level 1.5 mile hike to shoot rhododendrons and a nice 360 shot of the surrounding mountains... They see an unassuming sign to Douglas Falls... it says "more difficult," but it can't be that far... maybe that's the 1.5 mile hike? This wrong turn ends the semi-adventurous couple on an 8-mile death hike up and down the mountain: through switch-backs, jutting rocks in the path, undergrowth hiding the trail, pricker plants, squelchy ground, and a multitude of little trickling slime-covered waterways. All leading to this... the Douglas frakkin trickle. Not impressive in the least. The death slog wouldn't have been so bad, if there was a payoff.
But, melodrama aside, we made it and we're only a little worse for wear.
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