Leon Turnbull Photography

Cascade Creek and Tamarack Creek collide together at the top of a huge waterfall.

After scrambling around at Foresta Falls, I headed down into the valley. Along the way, I made an unscheduled stop at the turnout for The Cascades. There is only one way to describe how the waterfalls were at Yosemite when I was there. They had gone completely nuts. The snow was melting, all the waterfalls were roaring mad, and the Merced River was hog wild. I have only been to Yosemite once before at this time of year when the waterfalls are going crazy like this. It was completely awesome, but it also makes for very challenging photography. When I went to the base of the Cascades, it may as well have been pouring rain, because I was totally drenched standing there. I tried to take a photo, but it did not turn out at all. At the top of the waterfall though, it was a different story. I scrambled down in between the two creeks to where I could get a vantage of them colliding together. I didn’t really want to do too much more scrambling around this day because I had done enough of that at Foresta and I had a killer hike yet to do in the afternoon. More on that later. Nonetheless, I ventured down to this view point, and took a shot. It was not difficult, but you wouldn’t want to fall here, that’s for sure.