First, let me mention that there seems to be much confusion about the name of the site. It is either Pearson Falls or Pearson’s Falls. The owner of the site, the Garden Club of Tryon, North Carolina, lists it as Pearson’s Falls on their website, but the road leading to it is called Pearson Falls

OK, a little alliteration never hurt anybody. This was one trip I had been wanting to take for quite a while. I had arranged to meet my friend, Diane Creaton, from the South Carolina Native Plant Society, at Table Rock State Park to make the 7-mile round-trip hike up the side of Pinnacle Mountain, the tallest