{"id":188,"date":"2009-05-30T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T02:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-06-04T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:34:37","slug":"rufus-morgan-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Rufus Morgan Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rufus Morgan falls is located on an isolated loop trail on the east side of Siler Bald.\u00a0\u00a0 The forest road access to the trail is off of Wayah Rd and it&#8217;s about the only maintained trail in that area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"foreground_cascade\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/foreground_cascade.jpg\" alt=\"Rufus Morgan in the Distance\" width=\"302\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/foreground_cascade.jpg 302w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/foreground_cascade-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufus Morgan in the Distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trail is a loop of about a half mile on either side with a decent elevation gain up to the falls.\u00a0 The main falls can be seen in the background where the trail crosses the creek.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"us\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us.jpg\" alt=\"Us at Rufus Morgan Falls\" width=\"385\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us.jpg 385w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/us-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Us at Rufus Morgan Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Up close, it&#8217;s impossible to see the entire cascade at once but the main drop is impressive and it&#8217;s about 5-10 degrees cooler in this little cove than the surrounding forest.\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t much of a pool at the bottom of this one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191\" title=\"rufus_morgan_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rufus_morgan_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Rufus Morgan Falls\" width=\"382\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rufus_morgan_falls.jpg 382w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rufus_morgan_falls-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rufus Morgan Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Probably everyone who has ever been here has a picture involving this prominent rock.\u00a0 Now we do too.\u00a0\u00a0 Trout usually wanders out of the frame before a picture is taken but for some reason he wandered into this one and sat down nicely in the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rufus Morgan falls is located on an isolated loop trail on the east side of Siler Bald.\u00a0\u00a0 The forest road access to the trail is off of Wayah Rd and it&#8217;s about the only maintained trail in that area. The trail is a loop of about a half mile on either side with a decent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rufus Morgan Falls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-nantahala-nf","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}