Leon Turnbull Photography

I’ve been antsy lately to get out to see some waterfalls. I get this way once the rain starts here. I love the rain. You may think I’m crazy, but to me, rain means waterfalls. I love hiking in the rain too. You may think I’m crazy about that too. The only thing that is a bit tough is taking photographs in the rain. After striking out waterfall hunting the previous weekend, on Christmas Eve, I was pretty much going bonkers. My wife let me (or kicked me) out of the house for a couple hours, and off I went to Traverse Creek Falls.

Traverse Creek Falls is a nice little 30 ft. high waterfall, close by, and fairly easy to get to. It is a good one for seeing how the waterfalls are flowing generally, because its flow varies so much. In the summer, it is completely dry. When it is flowing, it varies from a single segmented form (seen here), to a beautiful Havasu Falls type double segmented form, to an all out 25 foot wide torrent of water. I was hoping it would be in double segmented form, but unfortunately it was still in single segment form. We just need a little more rain.

But it has been raining quite a bit this month. We’ve gotten quite a lot of snow in the mountains, much needed for our water supply (and the spring waterfall season of course). Snow in the mountains usually means rain in the valley. And that means the valley and coastal waterfalls flowing again. On Christmas Eve it was raining in Folsom when I headed out to Traverse Creek. Did I say I love the rain? But fortunately, it was only drizzle by the time I got to the waterfall for taking pics, though I only took this one picture while I was here. But it was definitely nice to get out in the rain and see a waterfall. Merry Christmas everyone!