Warning: Hiking above or below Vilas bridge may result in sudden drowning followed immediately by being dashed to bits among many rocks. Really, really. 

Vilas Bridge

I decided to go looking for the Indian carvings that reside somewhere below the Vilas Bridge...

What I did not do, was any research on where to look to find them.

Having gone and returned without finding them.. I, then, researched where to find them and you're not supposed to do any rock climbing.

Anyway, this is what I did find...

Parking well below the bridge, this was my first sight of the bridge from below.

Word to the wise: this area is under raging water after heavy rains or if they suddenly open the dam anyhow.

I, therefore, recommend against anyone hiking below Vilas Bridge.

Getting closer, there's a brick comstock built into the hillside!

This is actually quite visible from Table Rock 

Whatever it used to be, it's not going to be too terribly long till this comes down. 

During Spring runoff, water usually surges up to just below the bottoms of the arches. 

That's gotta be sixty or seventy feet from road surface to water surface 

Quite the footings.. 

Looking across the surface of History... 

This is looking up sharply towards road level from just above the water level 

If time were compound interest, this could be the remaining principle.

Wild detail... 

Far across, I spy a gem.. 

A pearly white river egg trapped in a washout..

As you can read elsewhere, don't hike down to the river bed to see Indian carvings.. they're supposed to be visible from road level, just 50 feet from the bridge, you peer over the cable fence without falling over, of course.. Oh well..  maybe next time..