Friday night we camped at the Fall Creek Falls campground. Southern car camping resembles more of tailgate party than a chance for solitude, but since we went as a group of friends from the ward that was okay.
After a long evening of conversation near the campfire, we had a mostly uneventful night sleep.
After a leisurely breakfast, JP and I took a side trip along the cable trail to the bottom of Cane Creek Falls. This required a rather steep vertical descent (and of course ascent on the way back) aided to some extent by a cable (although at the crux of the descent the cable was not useful.)
After this most pleasant short hike we drove over to the Fall Creek Falls overlook and rapidly hiked down the the bottom of the Falls. After about a hour of enjoying the scenery we hiked backed up to the top and ate lunch.
Then we went rock climbing at the Copperhead Rock site nearby. This was the first time JP had climbed an actual rock face instead of a climbing wall. He did pretty well, but got stuck in one place and had to try it about three times, but finally got it.
We then went to Burgess Falls, where it proceed to pour rain. Still we hiked to the bottom of the Big Falls to finish out our Grand Tour of Falls.
