Leon Turnbull Photography

After work last week I headed out to Colfax and down Yankee Jim Rd. to the North Fork American River.

The creeks down there were all rushing. There were waterfalls falling down the side of the cliffs beside the road, on unnamed streams. Devil’s Falls was going crazy. I have only seen it like this once before, and that was many years ago. I didn’t have a lot of time before dark, so I headed up to Mexican Gulch. Most of the year, this little creek is dry or just a trickle. But today it was flowing stupendously. There is a nice little cascade, 34 ft. high, flowing down the drainage right beside the road, and I wanted to photograph it.

Getting up to the cascade was a little more difficult than I imagined however. I had to scramble up through the low hanging brush, crawling on my knees to get through it, then came to a spot where I had to scramble up and over a big rock and down to the creek in front of the cascade. Then I had to setup my camera in the middle of the stream, taking care not to slip on the wet rocks.

That is when I realized my favourite tripod head was broken! Ugh, it was like the attachment had just broken loose and it is now very wobbly, and not tight. When I got back home, I could see no way to tighten it back on, it just seems to have come un-attached. That sure bugs me, but fortunately I have another one I can use for now.

Well, I managed to get this nice photo of Mexican Gulch despite my tripod issues.