NEW PROSPECTS
Eight waterfalls in two days, and ten overall on my Christmas holiday (all new waterfalls to me, except for one). Not too bad, me thinks. I was pleased. My belly was full. It was scrumptified. Not all the waterfalls were big ones, but at least half of them were really nice ones, and I think this last one was the most purdy of them all.
The last day was scheduled to be cloudy so we took a big detour through the mountains. That turned out to be a bit hair raising because it was snowing (that part was not scheduled). There was a few inches of new snow on the ground, and the highway had not been plowed. If this was British Columbia, the road would have already been plowed in the night. But this was Oregon. I was not worried about going off the road or anything, but it was just very slow going because it was not plowed. We finally arrived in Prospect in the late morning.
There are four nice waterfalls here, including two utterly spectacular ones. It is a short and pleasant hike through the forest on an icy and snowy path down to Mill Creek and Barr Creek Falls. Barr Creek is the one pictured here and it is a drop dead beautiful drop of 167 ft. (there is also an upper section of this falls that unfortunately cannot be seen very well). Again, I had to keep telling the kids to be careful near the cliff edge. Nekoda managed to clonk her hiking pole down hard onto Jadon’s head while they were standing next to the edge. Oh my gosh. It was an accident of course, but Jadon was in a lot of grief for a few minutes, and I’m just glad he handled it so well and didn’t retaliate. Bye bye Nekoda. That would not have been a happy moment. In truth, the kids get along extremely well together. If it was me and my sister Tania at that age, it really would have been bye bye Tania. I am kidding – I hope, but I did once push my sister off the counter at our house when she was a toddler. But no worries, she still loves me. Ha ha.