Today's hike was a little dreary. The sun tried to come out, but for the most part it was overcast. Still a great day for a hike. Waterfalls are great.
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| A bouquet of Spring Beauties. If the sun was out the flowers would be open |
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| Joe is usually the photographer. Here he stopped to pose next to upper French canyon waterfall. |
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| More of the Upper French |
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| Early May apples peaking through |
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| Upper Wildcat Canyon |
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| Wildcat Canyon waterfall from the East Overlook |
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| Looking down from the East Overlook towards the Illinois River |
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| Can you see the 2 waterfalls in Wildcat Canyon? |
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| Everyone enjoying the waterfalls in Wildcat Canyon |
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| Dutchman's Breeches among some Bloodroot (Bloodroot is the wildflower whereas the leaf is wrapped around the stem of the single flower.) This flower is short lived. Will only last 2-3 days if not windy. |
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| View from the Beehive Overlook |
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| Some ferns along the sandstone on the River trail. |
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| View of Eagle's Cliff from the River Trail |
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| More Mayapples starting to peak out. These are the wildflowers that will grow about knee high and look like umbrellas. Underneath will be a white daisy like flower. |
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| View of the Starved Rock Lock and Dam from Eagle's Cliff |
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| My favorite view in the park. Looking East from Eagle's Clif |
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| Platform at Eagles Cliff |
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| Blue Jay atop a tree by Lover's Leap |
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| Top of Starved Rock from Lover's Leap |
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| Water coming out of French Canyon on its way to the Illinois River |
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| One of two new signs near French Canyon |
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| 2nd new sign near French Canyon |
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| Newly placed sign along side the trail. On the right side of the sign you can see that the park staff put some work into placing this sign so that it would not be easily removed. Some people go to great lengths to pull these signs out. |
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| View of Lover's Leap from the top of Starved Rock |
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| Sign at the base of the flagpole at the top of Starved Rock |
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| View of the Lodge from the top of Starved Rock |
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| View of the lower parking lot and Illinois River looking West from the top of Starved Rock |
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| Solar panel that helps keep a light on the flag atop Starved Rock |
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| Signs indicating Poison Ivy |
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| Dutchman's Breeches |
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| I didn't go all the way into French Canyon, but some of the Walker's Club did. |
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| Some of the hiker's coming out of French Canyon. Video of French Canyon below |
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| Still a little bit of mud coming out of French |
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| Dutchman's Breeches were everywhere |
