On what looked like it might be the last beautiful day of "Indian Summer" -- with bright sun and the temperature nearing 80 degrees -- I decided that the thing to do would be to take the 7-mile hike that covers most of the waterfalls at Silver Falls State Park (the park that Oregon calls "the jewel" of its state park system).I parked the car at "Winter Falls," hiked about a mile to North Falls, (pix at top) and then behind North Falls on the Canyon Trail all the way to South Falls (the 3rd picture down). Again, it was a beautiful day, and I encountered a number of people (most of whom looked retired) who also had the same mid-week idea. I took a day-pack with water, a couple granola bars, a sandwich and apple slices, so I was in good shape.
The picture below is about half-way through the hike -- Lower North Falls (not so impressive, but a very pretty cascade amid lots of foliage.
Lower South Falls (this last pix) has a great family history to it since years ago on a hike at the falls, Mark made up this fabulous story about how the name had become confused over the years and really should be "Lawyer South Falls." Of course, a long story about Lawyer South was part of the revisionist version of history that Mark created! - rw
4 comments:
Ron, you are amazing! You will probably make it to the Lawyer Falls when you are your Mother's age:-)
Marcile
Nice pics...! I esp. like the one of South Falls.... very impressive!
I'm jealous - what a beautiful day. - Nancy
Indeed, I do believe that I will concur on Nzol's point about the South Falls pic being quite impressive -- with the sun shining on the falls (though the critique of too much flash on the foreground moss was mentioned just to keep my father from thinking he is a professional photographer).
I tried to explain the Lawyer south Falls story to Tracy. Let's just say "you had to be there."
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