Leon Turnbull Photography

One day after work this past week, I headed up to my local Traverse Creek Falls. Since my family was out of town, it was a good time to head out into the hills, but I didn’t want to go very far, so I figured Traverse Creek was the ticket.

I was expecting and hoping that Traverse Creek Falls would be in “double” mode (and lo and behold, it was!). I had not yet any good pictures of it in double mode, and double mode is the prettiest of its many forms. When I arrived at the trailhead, though, I could see that the tributary creeks (which flow into Traverse Creek) looked rather full, so I kinda thought that the waterfall might still be in “torrent” mode, which would have been surprising considering that we have not had much rain recently. Once I got down to Traverse Creek, however, I could see that the flow was definitely not torrent mode, and it was actually flowing quite nicely as a beautiful double falls.

I had brought my water shoes along with me, because I knew I wanted to cross the creek this time, and take pics from the other side of the creek. The water was rather cold as I waded across it, but I was actually not standing quite in the creek to take this shot, though my tripod was (and it didn’t like it – ha ha).

Afterwards, I packed up my stuff and headed back up the hill. This is one of the places that I usually try to remember to bring a garbage bag and pick up any trash on the way out. In the past, this place has been a total trash heap. I picked up a bit of trash, more than I would like to see here, but I have definitely seen it worse. This is just one thing that I completely fail to understand. How can people be so completely inconsiderate, disrespectful, and stupid? Are they really so incapable, that they cannot take out the trash that they bring in? Why ruin such a nice area for everyone else (and for yourself, when you come back in the future)? Anyway, end rant. Have a nice day.