Photo Gallery Twenty-three

Lower Rock Creek near Ironton, MO

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Lower Rock Creek looking downstream at the junction with the access trail.

Looking upstream near the junction with the access trail.

Continuing upstream in and out of the granite creek bed.

Continuing upstream.

The creek bed changes character after a sharp turn when granite slabs are replaced with boulders.  A trail skirts above the creek on the right through a mix of small and large rock.

Maybe a quarter mile upstream from the previous image  approaching the shear cliffs at Dark Hollow.

Close up of rocks in middle of stream from previous image.

Looking downstream from previous shot.

Looking at the upstream edge of the Dark Hollow area. The granite cliff face is in the range of 40 feet high plus or minus.  The larger boulders in the stream are half the size of a car.  This rock face gets very little direct sunlight because it is north facing with a very steep and high slope above.

Upstream and adjacent to the previous image a scale figure provides a reference for the size of the rocks in the stream bed and the adjacent cliffs.

Continuing upstream past Dark Hollow.

A great little crystal clear pool of water in the creek.

Close up of the water from the previous image.

This is a what you encounter trying to negotiate upstream in this creek.

Looking downstream from previous shot.

This is a rough area but provides a good little adventure.  We decided to climb the very steep slope on the right.

We bushwacked through this kind of material above the creek and up about 150 feet hoping to cross a trail. No luck.

Decided to climb to the top of this granite band.  It's much more steep than the photo conveys.

This is the base of a very steep 50 foot band of granite about 200 feet above the creek on Trackler Mountain.

Another view of the granite band in the previous image.

Looking down steam from boulders next to the creek.  This spot is just over halfway through the Lower Rock Creek gorge.

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