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| partners | | Last leg of base camp 1.
The sun came out. Bad for photog'ing, good for swimming. Well, we came to see waterfalls so let's go find them anyway.
First offtrail drop in - Steamboat Falls. A lot of the instructions for this forest's waterfalls are park around MP Xx (most of the MP's are gone or unreadable), head into the woods until you hear the falls, then head down below that sound. Sometimes there's a pink flag here and there, but the loggers also use flags. Sometimes there are faint paths intermixed with misleading game trails. Sometimes there is spikey devil's club to wade through (After AZ catclaw though, I was pretty unimpressed with the club until the crazy Rush Creek hike).
We made it downstream of the roar, then worked our way back up in the cold Lewis River (not too far from it's Mount Adam's glacier beginning). The sun was bright so we just hung out for a while exploring and stuff.
We scouted one more waterfall down the road then decided to head back to camp to wait until the sun was lower to return and also hit the other falls we had scheduled. I goofed around the Twin Falls then hung the hammock and chilled.
Later we resumed our exploration and checked out Pin Creek. After very carefully peering over the edge, I realized today was not the day to find a way to the bottom of the Upper Falls so we went to Upper upper (Pin head) and then back down to Lower (relatively easy OT hikes).
We were excited to go back to the falls on Big Spring Creek now that the lighting was great. Such an easy right off the road spot that just looks wonderful. With little defused daylight provided this day and #bodyissues, I opted out of a longer off trail falls search I had mapped out.
Last night at this camp. |
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May he guide you through the wilderness : protect you through the storm;
May he bring you home rejoicing : at the wonders he has shown you;
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