I took a walk along the trail that passes the Upper and Lower Piney Falls. The falls are about 35 miles from home for me, so it's easy to get to when I want to visit again.

You walk in from the road, and, when you get to where the trail starts you can go in either direction, since it is a large loop. I chose to go to the right, and in just a few minutes reached the top of the upper falls.

You are actually on top of the falls as you arrive, very near to where the water plunges over the edge and becomes the Upper Piney Falls.

The trail is so treacherous that some agency, probably tired of having to haul broken bodies out of the pit, has anchored ropes to the hillside that you hang on to in order to get down the slope. Thank goodness! I needed both hands to climb down, so didn’t take any shots of the trail.

It's where the Little Piney Creek comes gently rippling down its bed, and then plunges over the edge as the ground drops out from under it.

To continue on the trail, you have to cross over the creek just above the falls, and then  circle to the left around the plunge basin, which is the huge, steep-sided, deep hole. In this photo, you would be moving from right to left along the rim at the top. The trail takes you in a circle around to the front of the falls. And when you get there you are faced with a descent nearly as steep as the walls of the plunge basin that you see here.

I inched my way back in the direction I had come, but not on the trail. Instead I was on the very edge of the precipice, where there is just a narrow ledge, in order to get a look at the falls from this side.