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This is the second waterfall that Lee and I visited on Sunday. This one is called Slick Rock Falls. It was getting on to late afternoon by the time we arrived at the information center on Forest Service Road 475 near the falls. Once there we realized that we needed to drive part way up Looking Glass Rock, using Forest Service 475B, a very narrow gravel road, to access the parking lot for the mountain as well as the waterfall at the base. For some unknown reason, my ill ease with heights, which is normally quite mild, bloomed this weekend into near acrophobia. And I'll tell you--there were a lot of sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway that nearly had me in a tizzy. It's a good thing that Lee was driving--unfortunately I was driving when we went up the forest service road climbing Looking Glass Rock. There were two spots where the road just dropped off several hundred feet at the shoulder. Eeek. Anyway, the first picture here is looking at Slick Rock Falls from a few hundred feet a...