I stopped here a couple weeks ago, on a whim on one of my Sunday drives. There's a little sign, easy to miss, as you drive by on the highway between Columbia and whatever the next decent-sized town west of there is. Recalling names has always been one of my weaknesses. Introduce yourself to me and I'll almost immediately forget it unless I can associate it with something else. If your name is Cliff, I can associate it with cliff diving or jumping off a cliff. Not that I've done either, but I can make the association.
The place is called Stillhouse Hollow Falls, linked at the bottom of this page. There's a short gravel road leading uphill from the highway to a little gravel parking lot. I guess that road is called a "driveway." There were four or five cars already there, but no one around, at least no one visible, when I pulled in. The rough, narrow trail leads steeply down almost immediately. Halfway down, I came upon a girl — sorry, young woman — sorry, person who probably identifies as a woman, given her long blonde hair, pretty face and various curves. She was sitting at the base of a tree, fiddling with her phone, and had turned to look when she heard me hiking loudly down the trail.
Here are the first few video clips: falls1 — falls2 — falls3
I wanted her to know I was friendly. Assuage her fears. If I was a young woman alone in the woods, and a man as strange as me was coming toward me, I'd be apprehensive. So, I said hello in a sort of sing-song voice as I passed, but kept on walking. I probably overdid the sing-songiness. She probably thought I was complete weirdo. She'd be right, but she said, "Hey, there," real friendly-like.
Crisis averted, and I continued down the trail, looking for these falls. At the fork in the trail, I, of course, took the wrong one, going left and uphill instead of right, along the creek. That'd be the purple dashed line instead of the red on this map. I got to a certain point up there before realizing there was no scenic overlook in my immediate future, so I turned around and went down toward the creek.
When I got to this point, here, I thought “Please tell me this isn’t it.” It wasn’t.
Here it is from the top of the falls.
And, finally, the falls themselves… here
Apparently, I never got a good video of the actual falls, I’m such a bad vidographer. If you want to see more bad videos, go here!