Leon Turnbull Photography

We were totally busy all the long Memorial Day weekend working around the house. My wife was working inside, cleaning the house from top to bottom, and I was working outside in the yard: mowing, landscaping, trimming trees (we have quite a lot of trees in our yard). Whew! That is tough work. We had to do all this work this weekend because my parents are coming to visit next week, plus it was all very much needed work, and I am quite pleased with all we got done. But my poor kids were a bit neglected on the weekend, so much so that on Monday Jadon had had enough. He complained of being sick, but he was really just needing attention, so after I finally finished my yard work by about noon on Monday, I took the kids out to ride their bikes. Jadon is just learning to ride without training wheels, and he finally “got it” on Monday.

Afterwards, I really really wanted to get out and do some waterfallin’. With my parents here the next two weekends, I am not going to be able to get out of the house at all, so this was my one and only chance. I begged my wife to let me go, and she obliged. I decided to go up I-80 to the Truckee area. It was a bit late, and I didn’t have as much time as I wanted, but I stopped at Webber Falls first (will post that one later). Then, on the way home I stopped off at Cisco Grove in search of a “new” waterfall on Rattlesnake Creek. My friend Rob told me about this one that he “found” last year, so it was high on my list to visit this spring. Rob is a funny guy. He loves donuts, in fact he is kinda obsessed about them the way I am obsessed about waterfalls. So anyway, he decided to name this waterfall “Donut Falls”. Technically, it does not have an official name, and since he made the find …. well, it really is Rattlesnake Creek Falls since that is the creek it is on. But we’ll oblige Rob for a little while I guess. It’ll make him happy.

The waterfall is a spectacularly nice 24 ft. high beauty. It is surprising that no one knew of this one before, and that I had not heard of it myself. It is viewable from the road up to Fordyce Lake, but there is an easy path that leads down to the base of the falls. The only real problem with this falls is that I think it might be on private property. There is no sign at the path, and it is obvious that many people have gone down there, but I did notice signs all along the road and creek, so I have a bad feeling it may be private, and that would be a big bummer.