The picture of Hogskin Branch Falls I posted on December 1.
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On December 1 of this year I made a posting about all the junk we found around Hogskin Branch, a pretty little waterfall near Flag Pond in northeast Tennessee. The next day I heard from Bill, another waterfall collector, who said that he and his wife had visited the waterfall a couple of weeks before we did and there had been no junk around. He wondered what had happened and sent along a picture that he had taken.
The picture Bill sent after reading about Hogskin Branch Falls on my blog.
It quickly became obvious to both of us that we had not seen the same waterfall, so the question became ‘What waterfall did Bill and his wife see?’.
When Betsy and I went to Brevard, NC, about three weeks ago we decided, since I-40 was still closed, to go through Flag Pond to see if we could find the mystery waterfall.
Lower Clear Branch Falls, Flag Pond, Tennessee. December 10, 2009.
I think we were successful. The picture above is of Lower Clear Branch Falls. There was much less water when we were there, but the shelving and the rocks are the same as Bill shows. Further, the surroundings all matched what Bill reported.
Not only did we solve a mystery, we got another waterfall to add to our collection.
