The hIke Hike King Creek Falls features a 75-foot drop and a sandy-bottom pool. South Carolina's Foothills Trail The 77-mile trek can be even more fun when you do it in day hikes, and when your fellow hiker is the executive director of the Foothills Trail Conference. Text and photos by Leonard Adkins I had planned an overnight hike on South Carolina's Foothills Trail when an unexpected surgery from which I was still recuperating precluded carrying a fully-loaded backpack. To help me, Heyward Douglass, execu16 BlueRidgeCountry.com tive director of the Foothills Trail Conference, devised a couple of day hikes incorporating side trails that enabled me to cover basically the same terrain and distances. He even offered to arrange shuttles and do thehttp://www.BlueRidgeCountry.com