Beaver Falls
Well, I am back from vacation. It was a whirlwind trip up to my parents in Rossland BC, then over to Cranbrook to visit my sister and her family, then a 1 day stint at the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon on the way home. I officially saw 20 waterfalls on this trip. All in about a one week span. Don’t worry too much. I won’t be posting all 20 of them on this blog (though they will probably all make it onto my main waterfalls site). But I will be posting many waterfall shots over the next couple weeks, and I am sure you will be quite sick of waterfalls by the end of it. hee hee.
Not all the waterfalls I visited were new ones. Beaver Falls in Trail BC, I have visited twice before. I was here in the winter when it was much too dangerous to get to the bottom. I was here in the spring when it was possible to get to the bottom of the canyon, but impossible to get up to the base of the falls because the creek is rushing too fast, and there is a big rock wall you need to negotiate around in order to get up to the waterfall. In the summer, however, it is quite easy to get right up to the bottom of this 62 ft. high falls. The creek was flowing about what I expected for this time of year, so I was definitely rather pleased to see a nice flow to this fabulous waterfall.
From the top of the canyon, it is a very steep descent to get down to the base of the falls. I noticed a rope leading down a “new”, well worn path to the bottom. Obviously, most people go down this way, but it looked far too steep to me. I knew there was an easier path leading down to the bottom, but that other path is now a bit overgrown. On the way back up, I decided to try the “rope” path. That was a mistake. As I got up to the top, desperately holding on to the rope on a very steep slope, I realized I needed to somehow climb up and over a large tree branch to get up the last section. If I had slipped, I would’ve been back down at the bottom of the canyon in a couple seconds. I did make it up. Barely. But I don’t understand why most people would choose this difficult and dangerous descent/ascent, rather than the much easier path.
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