Gunpowder Falls State Park, Jerusalem Road
August 2nd, 2010On Saturday, we took our dogs on a hike at Gunpowder Falls State Park (Jerusalem Road) where we explored the trails there for a few hours. Little Gunpowder Falls river is a very pretty river, meandering across a large rock bed. Despite the name, we never came across any significant falls, however. Along the trail, one of our dogs discovered a toad in an unfortunate position; its back-end was fully engulfed by the unhinged mouth of a snake (see picture below). Elsewhere, the trail opened off to a large grove of poplar trees, which provided an impressive area of shade to everything beneath them. We also found a few fallen trees with basketball-sized fungus growing on them. All in all, it was a nice hike with the dogs at a location we had never explored before.
Little Gunpowder Falls (Click thumbnails for larger view)
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:51 am
Lovely shots of a really beautiful hike. I still can’t believe that we saw that snake/toad. That was pretty incredible.