. Started from the gate, then made my way upstream and followed the Sandy river. Took the Timberline trail cutoff, then instead of crossing the river, headed upstream off trail. After many brutal, rainy hours, I finally crossed over the crux, a little scree field with rock raining from above (seriously, I saw 5 come down in the short time I watched.). I was very thankful I hadn’t followed through my original plan of trying to descend that knife ridge, as there appeared multiple cliff bands that one would have to navigate on really, really, crummy rock. After this it was only another hour or so until the mighty Paradise Branch Falls were in front of me! Although the cavern behind is more like an amphitheater then a cave, it still a beautiful waterfall, albeit grueling to get too. (Apologies for the bigfoot quality photos, my phone sucks
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