3rd short walk in USA

We went on another short, but really lovely walk yesterday. We headed further west, following the Rogue River out to the canyons at Grave Creek. Real Deliverance country - you could imagine the sound of distant banjos.

We stopped on the way at the viewpoint at Hellgate:

From there, we wound the remaining 15 miles or so to our starting point:

That was on the south side of the Rogue, but our starting point was on the other side:

The trail is narrow - walkers only - and over rocks in parts, with a precipitous drop down to the river, which is at many points well below the trail level. It was important to watch your footing all the time. Jo found it tricky occasionally:

The sign at the beginning said 2 miles to the falls and we stopped near some white water once my app told me we had travelled that distance:

The real falls were actually another mile on - not high, but plenty of white water:

Some rafters followed us down and managed to find a way down the falls:

On the way back up the gorge, we were warned about the proliferation of Poison Oak, which, I'm told looks like this - 3 leaves together, going reddish:

Really nice walk/hike. Total distance covered 6.2 miles, with an elapsed time of just over 3 hours, just 2 hours of which were actually walking. Full stats here - http://app.strava.com/activities/180302564