Wild Wonderful Frank Park 02

We’re still on top of Crack Rock mentioned at the end of Wild Wonderful Frank Park 01, taking pictures of interesting vegetation like this lichen covered reddish stump.

Then in heading back down to the Loop Trail, took more pictures of the side of Crack Rock…

… including several of this especially picturesque setting on the rock wall perpendicular to the one with the crack, and right beside the crack as well. Seems to mean something in a larger way; I’ll let the photos do the talking for now.

Just on the other side of the trail from here we have a small fissure cave with quite interesting quartz patternings going on.

Cracked Rock and its lightning bolt shaped fracture as seen over top of a trail ladder, the only one encountered on the loop and probably the only ladder on Frank or Herman Park trails as a whole.

Continuing to roughly parallel Spoon Fork as we head upstream, more vistas of cascades are found on Loop Trail, although the drops tend to be smaller and less roaring as the stream begins to flatten out.

Evidence of past rock shaping. This is near the 2nd Spoon Fork portal featured, for example, in this Baker Blinker Blog post from way back in 2008.

Then to end my series of photos this fine day of hiking, I present to you what I later learned was commonly called a horsehair worm, but which appeared to me at the time (within Spoon Fork) as a sentient *string*. Never seen such a creature before, or even known of their existence. Frank and Herman Parks are teaching me in ways I couldn’t expect.