Tag: Trails & Hiking

  • Unconformity at Cedar Falls

    Unconformity at Cedar Falls

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    When you’re admiring Cedar Falls at Petit Jean State Park, there’s a great big unconformity right in front of you!Can you see it?

  • Ouachita – Glory Day

    Ouachita – Glory Day

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    Lake Winona and the eastern Ouachitas bathed in sunbeams.

  • Fishing in the Fall

    Fishing in the Fall

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    Original artwork.

  • Green Rails – Twin Trails

    Green Rails – Twin Trails

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    Nice paved hiking trails next to Blakely Dam.You aren’t seeing double – the trail splits into a loop at this point, and the wood really has turned that weird green color!

  • Steel Creek Autumn

    Steel Creek Autumn

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    Autumn at the Steel Creek Campground along the Buffalo National River.

  • Rusting Lion

    Rusting Lion

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    There’s all kinds of old junk in the forest…

  • Triple Falls

    Triple Falls

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    This is actually called “Twin Falls”, because the ones in the center and on the left are fed by springs up on the bluff that run year-round – so you can always see those two. The third is a creek that also runs along the bluff and is often dry, but in times of heavy…

  • Friendship Pond – May 2013

    Friendship Pond – May 2013

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    You’ll find this pond at the end of Friendship Trail, behind the Jessieville Information and Ranger Station on Hwy 7.

  • Charlton’s Summer Reflection

    Charlton’s Summer Reflection

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    Camp Charlton is a surprisingly little-known campground in the Ouachita Mountains.The water in this spring-fed swimming area is always cold – even on the hottest summer days!

  • Bear’s End Station

    Bear’s End Station

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    Two shots of the same strange location in a collection of strange locations called Bear House Cave, at Petit Jean State Park. I’ve taken to calling this odd dead-end corridor “Bears End”, because it looks like a place you’d sit and wait for the next bear to go by. The bottom shot what taken with…

  • Leaning Influence

    Leaning Influence

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    This boulder tumbled from higher up in the ravine some unknown time ago and came to rest near Cedar Creek Trail at Petit Jean State Park. For scale, that’s six-foot-tall me standing next to it with my partner Frank seated (taken in 2010).

  • Blakely Dam in November

    Blakely Dam in November

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    Blakely Dam and Stephens Park can be seen in this photo taken from a hiking trail across from it.