As promised in the previous post, here are photos of the bare rock in the mountains around me, taken fresh this morning just for you. First, you see the view from below the bridge that goes to my house. On the left is close and the right is far. Yes, the mountains seen behind the bridge are that steep around here (not typical of the Blue Ridge in general). Also, we have had a major drought this year, so the amount of water is much less than normal.
Next (below) I was standing on the bridge, shown above and, on the left, looking upstream, and on the right, looking downstream. That stream continues up the mountain for almost half a mile, all of it bare rock with endless waterfalls before it flattens out in the large bowl-like valley above.
