2. 2008

Red River Gorge, KY

A week spent in the Red River Gorge yields too many climbing pictures to count. Don't miss the extra pages!
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One of our finds was a spider large enough to span a dollar bill.
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One of our finds was a spider large enough to span a dollar bill.

KentuckyRed River GorgeAnimals2008

  • Sunlight illuminates a bright red tree on a Red River Gorge hillside.
  • The local hiking trails are made a little more accessible with staircases keeping the trails intact in steep sections.
  • A time-worn staircase descends a steep hillside through the woods.
  • A river otter glances cautiously at the camera before swimming quickly away.
  • A pair of river otters make ripples as they swim away over an underwater carpet of fallen leaves.
  • A lone leaf remains on the surface, soon to join its fellows under the water on the creek bottom.
  • Kelsey's goal for the day was to find a salamander, having never seen one in the wild. This task we accomplished by wandering along the river and turning over rocks.
  • A crawdad hunkers down between rocks in the small creek.
  • One of our finds was a spider large enough to span a dollar bill.
  • A slender salamander curls around the gravel in the riverbed.
  • Golden light filters through the leaves and illuminates another curve in the road.
  • Tracy works her way higher on the last day we climbed in Kentucky.
  • Sunlight brightens the leaves and the lives beneath on the rocks of the Red River Gorge.
  • A tiny tree sprouts on the cliffside over the Red River Gorge.
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