Pounding Mill Creek falls (5 falls)

6/16/2012 - went back to see if conditions on the road had improved.  They definitely have.  Looks like quite a bit of road work and graveling was done and the road was in good condition.  I was able to drive the road all the way west to where it becomes a paved road.  Found a new, small waterfall on the side of the road.  It's pretty much buried in rhododendron, so it doesn't show up well in the photo - but as usual, when you are there the moving water makes it easier to see.

7/10/2011 - went back up to Rabun County to Hale Ridge Rd.  My intention was to follow the Forest Service roads all the way into North Carolina, but they were too wet and in too bad a shape and I had to stop at the trailhead for the Holcomb Creek trail and turn around.  But I did get 4 falls along Hale Ridge Rd. 

These are all really hard to see in the photos, they're all buried in thick rhododendon.  As is usual with falls like this, they are much easier to see when you are there.

Falls 1 is the gray spot dead center in the photo.
Falls 2 is the line of white spots in the center of the photo.

According to GMAPS the first 4 falls are on Pounding Mill Creek

GPS: 34°55'40"N 83°14'18"W (Pounding Mill Creek)
GPS: 34°56'16"N 83°14'26"W (Pounding Mill Creek)

These two falls are very close together.
Falls 3 is the broken white line just above the enter of the photo.
Falls  4 is all of the broken white in most of the photo.
GPS: 34°56'21"N 83°14'26"W (Pounding Mill Creek)

This falls is hard to see in the photo.  It goes from the large dark area just off-center to the little white spot that is just visible near the top and just off-center.

 

GMAPS does not show the name of the creek for this falls, but it flows into an also unnamed creek that flows into Holcomb Creek

 

GPS: 34.98488° -83.28256° (this may not be correct)

Directions and Information: from Clayton, GA

• east on Warwoman Rd
• north on Hale Ridge Rd
• last falls is west on Hale Ridge Rd - left turn at the T junction

Note: I didn't see a sign with the name of the road on it, but there is a sign on the right side of Warwoman Rd that says "Hale Ridge Cemetary"