Hike to Switzer Falls

 So this hike is about 2.5 miles to the falls, maybe slightly less. The first part is along a creek under tress, which is nice. Not much elevation gain or loss here, except for about mile or so of it where you veer away from teh creek, up a hill, and then along a cliff until you wind back down to the creek and ultimately to the waterfalls. The stretch along the cliff is exposed to the sun, which even at 9 AM was a bit harsh, and even hotter on the way back. This stretch was also too skinny to pass people and also at 9 AM, it was already crowded on this Saturday morning. But, this hike is pretty awesome! Lots of criss crossing the creek which is fun, and lots of trees, so you don't feel like you're in a desert the whole time.

 View from up atop the two tiers of this waterfall. The rocks are slippery where the water runs, with moss too, so you can use it like a slide to go off into this top tier pool of water, although it looked to be only about 4 ft deep at most, maybe less.... Oh and yea, there's some of the crowd i already mentioned...

 We hiked up back the creek above the waterfall, thinking we could hike back up teh creek the whole way...

 Exploring!

 And we found another, bigger waterfall! This might actually be the Switzer waterfall and the other one isn't? not sure, but this one was awesome, with no one else up there. It's about 40 feet high?

 Mel, estimating the height

 So you can't hike back up the creek the whole way. We went back to the first waterfall and back up around the cliff hike, which has pretty awesome views. i.e. above

 Another example

 another

Desert-like part of the hike, but still awesome