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I had taken my inflatable kayak down to Lake Hartwell for a paddle over to Andersonville Island one day last week, but when I unpacked my car at the Double Springs Access Area I found I had left behind one very important item. An item one simply must bring when you have an inflatable kayak: an air pump! No air pump, no kayak trip! I had loaded my car the night before and apparently I forgot to add in the pump. Rather than head back home with nothing to share after all those the miles traveled, I consulted my list of historical POIs and quickly improvised a new plan. Double Springs Community Park Double Springs Community Park is a short distance away from the Double Springs Access Area at the intersection of Double Springs Road and Hattons Ford Road . Double Springs School operated here from 1894 until 1955. Aerial photos suggest the building, large wooden multi-teacher building, stood here until the mid 1990s, when the building was torn down and a park built on the old school land. T...

A "cold wave" has been in progress in my area the past few days resulting in temperatures during the day some days not rising above freezing. After seeing photos of frozen waterfalls in other places, I thought it'd be interesting to see some on my own. I spent the last two days doing just that. Day One I visited two waterfalls on day 1, both visited by hiking  Falls Creek Trail #31 . The trailhead for Falls Creek Trail #31 is located off Fall Creek Road , a short distance down the road from the Palmetto Bible Camp. The trail mostly follows a partially eroded logging road up, and up, then up some more, then up even more. The first waterfall I wanted to visited is on Little Falls Creek. I left the trail where an old aerial map suggested there might be an old logging road to lead me right to this waterfall. I didn't find this logging road, so I decided to head back down to the trail. As I approached the Little Falls Creek crossing along the trail, I could hear and see th...