Jeff's Arkansas Hiking Blog: March 2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Gobblers Knob Hollow Waterfalls - Arkansas Ozarks - Northeast of Salus - CR 7549

2/26/23 - Gobblers Knob Hollow Waterfalls (WF)

GPS Coordinates: (Latitude, Longitude, Elevation)

Parking area: 35.76498, -93.36602

Cascade 1: 35.76766, -93.36435

Cascade 2: 35.76787, -93.36436

WF 1: 35.76806, -93.36441

Cascade 3: 35.76861, -93.36463

WF 2: 35.76864, -93.36472

WF 3: 35.76873, -93.36474

Cascade 4: 35.76943, -93.36528

Cascade 5: 35.76972, -93.36566

Cascade 6: 35.77020, -93.36566

Cascade 7: 35.77095, -93.36629

Cascade 8: 35.77134, -93.36679

WF 4: 35.77144, -93.36661

Cascade 9: 35.77168, -93.36644

Cascade 10: 35.77199, -93.36659

Cascade 11: 35.77243, -93.36647

Cascade 12: 35.77283, -93.36647

Cascade 13: 35.77329, -93.36656

WF 5: 35.77362, -93.36653

Gobblers Knob Grotto Falls: 35.77376, -93.36680

Cascade 14: 35.77380, -93.36666

The Moss Slot: 35.77400, -93.36675

Good Sheppard's Falls: 35.77415, -93.36688

Rock Feature 1: 35.77436, -93.36668

WF 8: 35.77475, -93.36656

WF 9: 35.77496, -93.36645

Rock Feature 2: 35.77517, -93.36649

WF 10: 35.77539, -93.36650

Cascade 15: 35.77532, -93.36686

WF 11: 35.77512, -93.36712

WF 12: 35.77485, -93.36675

Cascade 16: 35.77599, -93.36691

WF 13: 35.77675, -93.36713

Cascade 17: 35.77700, -93.36702

WF 14: 35.77728, -93.36703

Cascade 18: 35.77761, -93.36716

Cascade 19: 35.77771, -93.36728

Cascade 20: 35.77786, -93.36729

WF 15: 35.77801, -93.36740

WF 16: 35.77820, -93.36723

WF 17: 35.77838, -93.36728

WF 18: 35.77861, -93.36748

Rock Feature 3: 35.77884, -93.36733

Rock Feature 4: 35.77941, -93.36733

Cascade 21: 35.77963, -93.36745

WF 19: 35.78064, -93.36749

Cascade 22: 35.77997, -93.36999

Cascade 23: 35.77962, -93.37028

Cascade 24: 35.77936, -93.37050

WF 20: 35.77885, -93.37079

Cascade 25: 35.77871, -93.37096

WF 21: 35.77797, -93.37213

Cascade 26: 35.77787, -93.37210

WF 22: 35.77096, -93.36714

Overhang Bluff Falls: 35.77107, -93.36715

Markers

Blue Waypoint = Named WF

Black Waypoint = Unnamed WF

Orange Waypoint = Cascade

Hiker symbol = ATV trail

Running Person symbol = Access point

Stone symbol = Rock Feature

Car Symbol = Parking area

Level of Difficulty: There is no trail. This is a bushwhack hike. Going up the first hill from the gravel road was moderate. Up along the top was mostly easy with the terrain being level and the first couple of hills going down hill was moderate. When I got about halfway down to the hollow, the hills started getting steeper and the hike became strenuous. Hiking along and in Gobblers Knob hollow and the drainage can be strenuous with many tree's being down that you either have to climb over or hike up hills and then down to get around. I crossed the water many times and had to hike up hills from the top of a waterfall and then along the hillside to find a way down below the waterfall. Going up the hill to cut over to the other drainage from Gobblers Know hollow was strenuous some. Hiking up that drainage was similar to hiking down Gobblers Knob hollow. Hiking along the atv trail was easy. The first half of hiking up the hills from the atv trail was strenuous with the hills being steep but the second half was more moderate with those hills being more gradual.

Hiking Statistics for Loop: 3.82 miles / Ascent is 925 feet and Descent is 886 feet

To get to the parking area, I took Hwy 21 to CR # 5570. I drove along CR # 5570 east to CR# 7549. I took a left onto that road and drove to the parking area. On most of my hikes, I have to hike down hill first but on this hike, I had to hike up hill just a little ways first where Gobblers Knob is to be able to get to the other side of the mountain from the road in order to hike down to the hollow. After I was at the top, I looked at my gps to see witch way to go to get to the hollow. I hiked at an angle to the right down hill and into the hollow. I was in the hollow just at the tip of it at coordinates 35.76671, -93.36414. The hills were moderate to get where I was since I was just at the tip of the hollow. As I started working my way down the hollow, the hills on the sides became steeper so I was glad that I went down the less steep hills to be in the hollow. As I was hiking down the hollow, I came across 2 cascades that I stopped and took photo's of. Water was not running as good as I was hoping that it would be. Just a little ways further down the hollow, I was at the top of WF 1. I hiked up the hill to the right of the top of the falls and hiked along the hill side a little ways to coordinates 35.76814, -93.36430. I headed down hill to get below and in front of the falls at those coordinates. Where I went down would have been like a cascade WF with steps if water had been running better. I had to sit down and drop down to get down the last part. I spent some time there taking photo's and marking the falls on my gps. When I was done there, I continued hiking down the hollow. The hike is starting to get tougher now with many tree's being down and having to either climb over and under them or hike up and down hills to get around them. I came across another nice cascade that was running some as I was working my way down the hollow. Just a little ways after that, I came across 2 small WF's. I was still not in the big part of the hollow that the gps showed on my map yet. I spent some time there taking photo's of both falls. I continued on down the hollow after that and came across another nice cascade. Now I'm getting into the main hollow that is shown on the gps. I came across 5 cascades as I was working my way down. Very soon after those, I reached a small WF. I took some photo's and marked it on my gps before moving on. I was hoping to reach another WF soon with the hills getting steeper on the sides and being in the main hollow now. I ended up coming across 5 more cascades while working my way down the hollow first. Finally, I reached a WF to my left that would be running good after heavy rain. I took photo's and marked it on my gps before moving on. I then came to where there was a small falls to my right and a narrow steep drop off in the main hollow. I took some photo's from the top of it and then looked at both hillsides to decide which one to use to get down below. I was on the right side of the water but crossed over to the left to get a better look at the hillside on the right. I decided that the right side was the better hillside and had hills that I could see that I could use to get down below the bluff. I crossed back over and headed up hill to coordinates 35.77383, -93.36650. After I reached that point, I started heading down hill and used the hill at coordinates 53.77393, -93.36670 to get below. As I worked my way down the hill and to the left, I could see Gobblers Knob Grotto Falls and how nice the grotto looked. I started video taping as I was hiking down the hill and getting closer to the falls. I looked to my right and seen how the bluff went all along the hollow across the way making a long slot area that has moss all over on the other side. I could also see another waterfall coming off the bluff on the other side down along the slot a ways. I got down in front of the falls and took many photo's and a couple of videos. I spent at least 20 minutes taking pictures around Gobblers Knob Grotto falls. I then started walking along tight areas along parts of the rock in the slot area and worked my way carefully to where I was close to the other WF coming off the bluff. I knew if water had been higher, I would have had to have just walked through the water to be where I was in the slot or if water had been too high, I would not even be able to be down there. I marked Good Sheppard's Falls on my gps and debated about trying to go further down the slot passed this falls but it looked like it just got too tight. I decided that I would have to go back a certain ways until I found a way to climb back up along the hillside I was on when I originally came down but I knew that I didn't have to go back up as high as where I was when I first came down. I video taped me hiking back through the slot towards Gobblers Knob Grotto Falls. I also took many photo's before climbing up to get back on the hillside. After I got up, I hiked along the hillside where I was just above the hollow and could see Good Sheppard's Falls just across the way from me. I took some photo's and a video of it from up there. When I was done there, I continued hiking along the hillside and could quickly see a neat bluff up the hill to my right a little ways. I decided to go up there and check that out first and then work on finding a way back down into the hollow where I was right next to the water. There is a nice long bluff there that a has a couple of good size / long shelters that you can take breaks under or even camp under. There were 2 WF's between the 2 shelters coming off that bluff and then one other WF after the second shelter. I took photo's of all those and marked them on my gps. After the third WF, I was getting close to the end of the bluff so I decided to start heading back to the hollow and work my way down into it. I started heading down hill towards the water at coordinates 35.77550, -93.36653. After I was back down right by the water, I worked my way up stream as far as I could to where I was on the other side of that tight area that I would not have gotten through without getting soaking wet. There was a WF on my left coming off the bluff as I was working my way up the hollow to that tight area. I could see now that what I was thinking from the other side was correct. I would have been totally soaked if I had tried to go all the way through the slot area. I took some photo's of that area and turned around and started hiking downstream along the hollow. I came across a WF to my right before reaching a couple of nice cascades in the hollow. The hollow was like a narrow canal now so I had to be up the hill on the right side some now and would hike up along there and then would have to hike down hill to get close to the water every time I came to another nice cascade or small WF and then back up hill. There were 4 nice cascades and 6 nice WF's in and along this canal so I kept going down to take photo's and marking them on my gps and then hiking back up hill some to continue on. I was finally able to get lower and closer to the water and came across 2 neat rock formations by the hollow. I took photo's of them and marked them. I looked at my gps and could see that I was getting close to the private property and it would soon be time to head up the hills to me left and cut over to the drainage that I was planning to hike along going back up. I decided to take a 15 min break by the second rock formation to get some food in me, some liquids in me and just to enjoy the area. When I was done with my break, I continued on hiking down the hollow. I came across 2 more nice cascades in the hollow. I crossed over to the left side just before I reached the first of the two cascades. After I left those, I then reached a nice waterfall that had small bluffs on both sides and a big pool so I had to go a ways along the hill on the left side to find a way to get down in front of the falls. I finally found a way down and took photo's and marked it on my gps. I then looked at my gps. After I was done there, I headed back up the hill I had gone down and knew that it was just about time to start hiking up the hills to my left and as I was hiking, I could see the big red dot on the tree a certain distance ahead of me. I decided to start hiking up hill then. I started hiking up hill at coordinates 35.78098, -93.36738. and worked my way up hill at an angle to where I was at coordinates 35.78091, -93.36855. I had to hike at an angle up the hill also to miss the private property. I started hiking down hill at an angle at the previous coordinates to get down and into the drainage. After I got down into the drainage by the water, I took a 10 min break. I was planning on hiking up this drainage most of the way but I knew that I could not go all the way up it due to private property at the top of it. As I was hiking up the drainage, I came across 3 cascades before reaching a WF. I took photo's of the cascades and the WF as well as marking them all on my gps. When I was done at the WF, I continued hiking up the drainage. Just like in Gobbler Knob Hollow, there were downed tree's that I had to climb over or hike up and down hills to get around. The hills on the side of the drainage were steeper in the lower half of this drainage. As I was working my way up along the drainage as well as up and down some hills, I came across 2 more cascades and another WF. I took photo's of them and then continued hiking. I had a rout drawn and still had a decent ways to go up the drainage before I was going to cut over to the left and back where I was earlier but I reached at atv trail at coordinates 35.77653, -93.37317 and decided to just hike along that back to Gobblers Knob hollow. I hiked along the atv trail for awhile and then could hear water running good down to my left. I was wondering if that was new or had I'd seen it when I was down lower but I could see that they were new to me so when I got closer I headed down to WF 22. I took photo's and marked it on my gps. Then I could see I was close to the top of another WF. I had to work my way back up the hill to the left and then around the right to get down below the next WF. I worked my way down below it at coordinates 35.77114, -93.36721. This WF has a big boulder partially in front of it with an overhang that sticks out far on the other side of it. It is called Overhang Bluff falls. I spent some time there taking photo's and a video as well as marking it on my gps. I then decided to go a little further down the drainage to see if there was more and then I got to the point where I was just up the hill from the top of a smaller falls that I was just below earlier while working my way down Gobblers Knob hollow. I knew I had gotten that falls earlier from below so I just headed back up hill to Overhang Bluff falls and worked my way up the hill from there that I had used to get down there and went back to the atv trail. After I got back onto the atv trail, I took a left and continued hiking along that. I kept looking at my gps to decide how close I wanted to get to the hollow where my track was before I started bushwhacking up hill to get back up to the top. I got off the atv trail and started bushwhacking up hill at coordinates 35.76915, -93.36529. I ended up hiking up steeper hills than what I hiked down at the beginning of the hike but I just didn't feel like dealing with the downed tree's along the water again. I worked my way up the hills to coordinates 35.76632, -93.36608 where the terrain is level. From there, I hiked at that level for a little bit before heading down hill and back to the gravel road where my car was parked.

Gobblers Knob Grotto Falls

Cascade 11

The Slot from a distance

Inside The Slot

Good Sheppard's Falls

WF 8

Shelter below long bluff

WF 9

WF 10

Cascade 2

WF 1

Gobblers Knob Grotto Falls

Tight space that I could not get through

Cascade 16

WF 13

Part of canal

Cascade 15

Cascade 14

WF 19

Overhang Bluff Falls

WF 22

Old Atv trail

Parking area

the level terrain after I got up to the top of the hills

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Lower & Upper Eldridge Hollow Waterfalls - Arkansas Ozarks - North of Oark, AR

4/28/2020 - Eldridge Hollow Waterfalls (WF)

GPS Coordinates: (Latitude, Longitude, Elevation)

Parking Area: 35.73786, -93.55982

Cascade 1: 35.74166, -93.55407

WF 1: 35.74171, -93.55417

WF 2: 35.74181, -93.55422

WF 3: 35.74174, -93.55510

WF 4: 35.74153, -93.55519

Ferris Falls: 35.74171, -93.55542

WF 6: 35.74206, -93.55617

Tall Falls: 35.74223, -93.55625

Cascade 2: 35.74341, -93.55759

Cascade 3: 35.74370, -93.55856

Cascade 4: 35.74375, -93.55876

Cascade 5: 35.74404, -93.55904

Cascade 6: 35.74534, -93.56038

Cascade 7: 35.74579, -93.56136

Cascade 8: 35.74584, -93.56148

Cascade 9: 35.74575, -93.56199

Emblen Falls: 35.74622, -93.56434

WF 9: 35.74643, -93.56444

Cascade 10: 35.74648, -93.56456

WF 10: 35.74666, -93.56498

WF 11: 35.74702, -93.56538

Cascade 11: 35.74723, -93.56571

Glenna's Curve Slide: 35.74734, -93.56609

WF 12: 35.74757, -93.56617

Cascade 12: 35.74773, -93.56607

Rock Pile Falls: 35.74788, -93.56606

WF 14: 35.74739, -93.56640

WF 15: 35.74745, -93.56707

WF 16: 35.74782, -93.56953

Waylen Falls: 35.74844, -93.57017

Eldridge Boulder Slot Falls: 35.74851, -93.57105

Cascade 13: 35.74854, -93.57147

WF 19: 35.74851, -93.57224

The Slot area: 35.74859, -93.57228

WF 20: 35.74861, -93.57242

Cascade 14: 35.74862, -93.57242

WF 21: 35.74908, -93.57319

WF 22: 35.74895, -93.57345

Cascade 15: 35.74905, -93.57381

WF 23: 35.74905, -93.57437

WF 24: 35.74909, -93.57558

WF 25: 35.74913, -93.57314

WF 26: 35.74873, -93.57014
Directional Change Falls: 35.74887, -93.57002

Cascade 16: 35.74599, -93.55940

Cascade 17: 35.74714, -93.55804

Cascade 18: 35.74865, -93.55457

Cascade 19: 35.74893, -93.55447

Cascade 20: 35.74963, -93.55209

Cascade 21: 35.74956, -93.55182

Cascade 22: 35.74945, -93.55155

WF 28: 35.74904, -93.55092

WF 29: 35.74900, -93.55072

Split Falls: 35.74873, -93.55034

WF 31: 35.74888, -93.55031

Eldridge Fern Falls: 35.74988, -93.55060

Upper Eldridge Hollow Falls: 35.75209, -93.54993

Eldridge Hollow Falls: 35.75198, -93.54995

Eldridge Double Tier Falls: 35.75198, -93.55013

WF 36: 35.75293, -93.55151

Tucked Away Falls: 35.75264, -93.55148

Markers

Blue Waypoint = Named WF

Black Waypoint = Unnamed WF

Orange Waypoint = Cascade

Hiker symbol = Ozark Highlands Trail

Running Person symbol = Access point

Car symbol = Parking area

Camera symbol - Old Atv trail

Level of Difficulty: Hiking along the OHT is easy to moderate. Hiking down the hills and into the hollow is moderate at first but then the hills become steeper to where the hike is strenuous. More than half of this hike is a bushwhack / off trail hike. While hiking in the upper part of the hollow, I had to climb over many downed tree's or go up and down hills to get around them which made the hike more strenuous. After I reached the fork, the hills were more gradual and then the terrain was level for awhile but I had to cross the water a good amount of times if I didn't want to have to hike up hill and then back down. On the way back and hiking up the other part of the hollow was moderate until I took the right tun to start working my way back up to the OHT. The hills to get to that trail and the waterfalls along it can be strenuous.

Hiking Statistics of Loop: 6.57 miles / The Ascent is 928 feet and the Descent is 913 feet

I had been here once before back in 2020. My friend Glenna joined me to explore the area. Multiple people have the upper part of Eldridge Hollow documented but I wanted to check out the lower part also so she joined me for the adventure. I drove to the town of Oark. Just a little east of that is the gravel road that I turned onto and drove along heading north to where I could either stay on that road or take a slight right. The OHT crosses both gravel roads. I stayed on that road and drove to where the OHT crosses it at the coordinates I provided for the parking area. I hiked along the OHT down to the hollow and decided to go the same way I did the first time where I would start bushwhacking where the hollow is first by the trail coming from the gravel road I parked on. I got off the OHT and started bushwhacking at coordinates 35.74107, -93.55393. I was in the hollow at coordinates 35.74151, -93.5541 and I quickly came across a nice cascade before reaching 2 unnamed waterfalls that Rick Henry and others had documented. I stopped at those and took photo's and marked them on my gps. The waterfalls were running very good after all the rain we had received that week. After I was done at those 2, a little ways down the hollow, I reached WF's 3 & 4. I took a stop there to get photo's and then continued on. The hills were moderate at times and a little steep at times at this point. There were tree's down like many other places where I either had to climb over them or hike up and down hills to get around them. I soon came to the top of the 5th WF named Ferris Falls. I hiked up the hill to my right from the top of the falls and found a hill to get down at coordinates 35.74195, -93.55545 to be down in front of Ferris Falls. I took a short break there while I was taking photo's and a video as well as marking it on my gps. It was running better than my first time there back in 2020. About 15 mins later, I was ready to continue on with the hike. As I was hiking down the hollow, I knew Tall Falls was coming up soon but forgot that there was another WF before it up to the left. When I'd seen that, I went up to it and took some photo's. It was running some but not as much as the others were. I then went back to the main hollow and then turned left and could see that I was going to be coming to the top of Tall Falls in just a little ways. When I reached the top of Tall Falls, I looked at my gps to see which hillside I used the first time there to get down the hill and in front of Tall Falls. I used the hill to my right from the top of the falls so I hiked up that hill and then along the hillside to coordinates 35.74245, -93.55621 and then I used that hill to get down below the bluff and in front of Tall Falls. It was running very good. I spent some time there before moving on down the hollow. I then came across 4 nice cascades before reaching the fork in the hollow. I knew to my right is the way I was going to be going back up to the other WF's in the upper part and to the OHT after I hiked down to all the WF's in the lower part of the hollow. I went up that some just to find a good place to cross the water. After I crossed, I took a left and headed back to the main hollow. I then took the right to continue heading down stream towards the lower part of Eldridge hollow. I came across 3 nice cascades in the hollow before reaching Emblen Falls. The water was running better this time than my first time so I did not cross it to be on the left side like I did my first time. There is a boulder there above it to the left that I was standing on while video taping during my first trip there. I just stayed on the right side this time because that is the side where we got down below it and in front of the falls the first time. I took a video facing it from up high while taking many photo's from many different angles before working my way down. There are like steps in the rocks on the right side that you can climb down and back up to get photo's from many angles but you can't climb all the way down unless you want to be in the pool of water and soaked. After I took many photo's, I climbed back up to the top and looked at my gps to see which hill I used to get down below the falls the first time. I worked my way to coordinates 35.74635, -93.56433 and used that hill to get down below. The water was running more this time so I knew that I was going to get my feet wet and it would be harder this time to avoid the water. There is a small WF to the right there when you get down but I just worked my way over to the left and in front of Emblen Falls. To get over to the right of it like I did the first time, I had to just walk through the water. I did that and took many photo's and a video. Then I crossed back over and went to that small WF and took some photo's of that and marked it on my gps like I did of Emblen Falls. After Emblen falls, you are between bluffs on both sides so water is coming off those, especially on the right side where I was hiking down along the hollow like Glenna and I did the first time. We were able to walk along narrow rock close to the bluff the first time and avoid walking in the water that time. I had to walk in the water at times this time with the water running more and at times, I was able to avoid being in it. There is a nice cascade there when you first start hiking that part between the bluffs on both sides. I love this part being between the bluffs with water coming off them. I remember how much fun Glenna and I were having the first time there. As we kept hiking further down, we were saying that it just keeps getting better. I passed by 2 more WF's along the bluff on the right side that I was hiking along that run after heavy rain. I took some photo's of being in that area again. I then came across one more cascade before reaching Glenna's Curve Slide. This falls is beautiful. I remember how excited Glenna and I were when we first came upon it. It was at least Mid-April when Glenna and I hiked there and she was feeling hot so she wanted to get in the water at some time. We could see the big pool at the bottom of the curve slide. When we got down below the slide and in front of the pool. Glenna went for a swim. I took photo's of her in the water. I decided to name it after her. On this hike, I remembered that we were able to get down to different levels in front of the curve slide to the right of it from the top like at Emblen falls but we had to climb back up again because the big pool is right below there. I also remembered that we went along the hillside to the right to get down in front of Glenna's Curve Slide. I took many photo's again from all different angles and a couple of videos of the full Curve Slide before starting to work my way down in front of it at coordinates 35.74738, -93.56619. As I was getting close to the hill to work my way down, I seen a small WF and a bigger one further up the hill a little ways. I had forgotten about those from the first hike. I hiked up that drainage on my right to those before working my way down and in front of Glenna's Curve Slide. The bigger falls further up is called Rock Pile Falls. I took some photo's, a video and marked it on my gps before going down in front of Glenna's Curve Slide. We got our feet wet just a little getting in front of Glenna's Curve slide the first time but I just had to walk through a foot of water at least this time to be right in front of it. I couldn't get as far over to the right in front of it like the first time since the water was higher this time. I took some photo's from in front of it. I took a 15 min break there before walking through the water again to get back onto the right side of the hollow. As I was working my way down the hollow, I came across WF's 14, 15 and 16. I took photo's of all of them and marked them on my gps. I then had to cross the main hollow based on how the hills were so I did. I hiked along the left side for a ways and then I'd seen another nice WF on the other side. It was too nice not to get up right in front of it so I crossed the main hollow again to be right in front of it. The water was like a foot and a half deep there. This is Waylen Falls. There is a cascade and another falls above it but it is too hard to get up to them from the bottom and I knew that I would be up at that level when on my way back so after I was done at Waylen Falls, I crossed the water again to get back to the left side of the hollow. I remembered that another WF was coming up that was kind of neat but hard to be in front of because a big boulder is partly in front of it and the big pool there. When I got close, I could see that boulder and then remembered that I had to stand on top of that boulder to be close to the falls because of the big pool. The boulder being there makes it kind of like a slot falls so I named it Eldridge Boulder Slot Falls. I went and climbed up the boulder and took photo's and a video while standing on top of the boulder. After I was done, I climbed down and continued on down the hollow. While I was working my way down, I was thinking about the neat slot area down there with multiple WF's just to the side running into it from my first hike there. It is a cool area. I passed one other wide cascade in the hollow before reaching the slot area. I'm on the left side of the hollow like I was the first time when I was at the slot area and those 2 WF's are on the left side running into the slot so I was walking on wet and slippery rock in areas. This time with the water running more, the water was a little higher even walking along the slot on the rock from the falls running better. You can walk along the slot close up at different levels depending on how high the water is. I crossed the first of the 2 falls there and then was able to get lower along the slot area where the water was gushing through there. I took many photo's and multiple videos of that area like the first time as well as marking it on my gps this time. There is a big pool at the end that the water runs into. After I passed the big pool, I came across 2 more WF's on my right and one on my left. I crossed the creek to the right side to take photo's and to mark those WF's and then continued on. I crossed also because I knew that I was going to be hiking up the hills on that side on my way back. There was one other WF I remembered that I wanted to get to before I turned around and started working my way back to the fork in the upper part of the hollow. I knew that I was going to hike back a quicker way than hiking in the hollow and that way was to be up a few levels of the hills where the terrain was decently leveled like Glenna and I did the first time. I decided also that I would work my way back along the hollow to those 2 waterfalls that I had just passed on my right and then work my way up the hill from there. After thinking about all that, I continued on hiking down the hollow. I came across another wide cascade before a WF on the other side of the hollow. I debated about crossing to get in front of it but I just didn't want to so I took a photo of it and marked it from the right side of the creek. Then I continued working my way to that one other WF. That WF was on the other side also so I debated about it and decided not to so I took a photo from there. Then I thought about it again and said to myself, that I have to get up in front of it so I walked through the water again to get up in front of it. I took photo's and marked it on my gps and then headed back to the main hollow to cross the water and get back onto the other side again. I then looked at the time and started rushing back to those 2 WF's where I was going to start hiking up hill. I took a break after reaching those 2 WF's before heading up hill. I headed up hill at coordinates 35.74908, -93.57315. After I reached the level that I wanted to be at where I knew those 2 falls were above Waylen Falls, I hiked along the hillside to reach that drainage at coordinates 35.74873, -93.57014. I came to a nice cascade and then seen a nice size WF above it. This WF is called Directional Change Falls because of the way the water comes down off the bluff. It was running good. I took photo's and a video of it as well as marked it on my gps. After I was done there, I started heading further up hill at coordinates 35.74868, -93.56964 to reach more level terrain to hike along all the way back to the fork in the upper part of the hollow. When I reached a certain level, I was on a very old Atv trail. I followed that all the way back to the fork. It stays up at the level I was at just a little ways and then starts gradually heading down hill. It reaches where it's right along the water just a little ways before the fork. When I reached the fork, I took the left to head up that other part of upper Eldridge hollow. I passed by 4 cascades while working my way up that before I got to where I could have either kept going straight or taken a right up to the trail. The top of both ways I could have gone are close to the OHT with WF's along them. I chose to take the right, which was the quicker way to the trail. While working my way up, I came across 3 cascades before reaching 2 of the unnamed WF's. I took photo's of them and then continued up the hill to the trail. Soon, I was on the trail. I then looked at my gps to see where the other WF's that have been documented were marked on my gps. Split Falls is along that drainage I came up just a little ways up from the trail. I headed up to that falls to take photo's and a video. When I was done there, I headed back to the OHT. I then started hiking along the OHT in the direction away from the parking area to reach another couple of WF's that are just down the hill a very little ways from the trail along another drainage. While I was hiking along the trail, I passed by Eldridge Fern falls which was just to my right along the trail. I stopped there for a few minutes and then continued heading on to those other WF's. When I got close to that drainage, I got off the trail and headed down hill to be below and in front of Eldridge Hollow Falls. I took some photo's and a video and then went just a little ways to the left where Eldridge Double Tier Falls is. I took photo's and a video of that before working my way up the hill that I had come down and to where I was just above Eldridge Hollow Falls. There, I was in the middle of Upper Eldridge Hollow Falls and Eldridge Hollow Falls. I took some photo's and a video before working my way back up to the trail. After I was back on the trail, I looked at the time it was and seen that I didn't have time to go to Tucked Away Falls and an unnamed WF above it. I provided the coordinates to them. I didn't get to see them the first time with Glenna being too tired and wanting to get out of there and this time, me not having the time with me needing to do another hike that day and cover another area to get onto the blog. I then hiked along the trail all the way back to the gravel road that I parked on.