THE WRIGHT STUFF
The last few weeks my hikes have just been very hard, going down to the bottom of steep, deep, crazy canyons. Just plain hard. This week I wanted to just do something easier. Well, that was the plan anyway.
So I drove up to Wrights Lake. That should be an easy hike, right? No steep crazy canyons up there, right? With not much snow yet, the road is still open, but it was definitely cold and icy. It was 26° when I started the hike an hour before sunrise in the dark.
I figured it would take about an hour to get to the first waterfall. There was lots of water flowing everywhere, and a lot of swamps to negotiate. You would not expect to see this in November, but we did have the most rain in October since 1962. Anyway, all was going well … Until I got to the creek crossing. The creek was flowing deep and strong, and I could see no way to cross, plus it was also very brushy getting down to it. Finally, I found a spot and was able to rock hop and wade across the creek, but it took quite awhile and now I was late, about 30 minutes late getting to the waterfall. When I got there I realized that in order to get in a position to photograph the waterfall, I had to wade across the creek again. I was on the wrong side. Sigh.
It was all worth it though. This waterfall is not a big one, 20 feet high exactly, and just barely qualifies for inclusion on my website, but it is a highly interesting waterfall shooting out in multiple segments. This segment shown here was the most interesting one, tucked away in a narrow channel. It was very cool.
After this, I had to hike another mile and a half cross country to the next waterfall. The sun was already up now. Would I get there in time?