CATAMOUNT
The first waterfall I went to last Saturday was this one I had never been to before, called: Catamount Falls. It is a really nice 45 ft. high cascade and definitely a sweet looking waterfall, and quite easy to get to.
Except for the poison oak. I was absolutely positive I never touched any poison oak on my hike, and because of that, I never bothered to scrub down when I got home. Next day: my entire body is covered with poison oak rash. Oh crazy stupid waterfall hunter! I must have picked it up going down here to Catamount Falls. There was certainly oak around, though I was pretty sure I had avoided it all. Apparently not! Ugh. Well, it was worth going down to this waterfall, but next time I will be sure to scrub off the oak when I get home.
This is a fairly recently “discovered” waterfall on Table Mountain, not by me. I would have come here much sooner, but the drought prevented me. This waterfall has a very small drainage and needs a lot of rain before it will be flowing. We just have not had that in the last couple years. This weekend we had enough to get all the waterfalls flowing, so I made a point of getting down to it this time, finally.
The person who “discovered” it came up with the name Catamount Falls (which, by the way, is another name for mountain lion, and there certainly seem to be plenty of these on Table Mountain). I am surprised the name has caught on as much as it has. My own name for this waterfall was Lower Hollow Falls, which to me makes a bit more sense, but nonetheless I still like the name Catamount, so we will certainly go with this name.
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