Peaceful Danger

This is Bust Your Butt falls as it looked this past Thursday, our first day camping on the Cullasaja River. (See the people in the lower left for a sense of scale. Look very carefully to the immediate right of the falls and you can see a person standing on the rocks).


As we were loading up the car on Sunday, we heard sirens. As we drove back by these falls on the way home, we saw a rescue underway.

A Florida man had waded into the upper portion of the falls to rescue his son whose foot had become stuck under a boulder. The father became trapped too. He managed to hold his son out of the water for thirty minutes. The son was rescued and survived. His father drowned.