Leon Turnbull Photography

I checked the weather forecast all week, every day, at least twice a day. Multiple different weather apps. Every single time on every single app it said it would be cloudy all day on Saturday. Right up until I went to bed on Friday night. This was the perfect forecast. I had a big hike planned on Saturday, and I did not want to get up at some stupid ridiculous hour to hike in order to make it to the planned destination on time and take photos in good lighting conditions. So I slept in a bit on Saturday. When I woke up I checked the forecast. What do you think it said? PARTLY CLOUDY. What the &*$#&*($%# ?? Are you kidding me ???

I almost went back to bed. However, I decided to drive up the hill anyway, in hopes that the conditions would be ok once I got up there. Nope. I arrived at the trailhead and it was sunny. It would be pointless to do this very difficult hike now. There was no possible way I could make it to the waterfalls in good light.  I drove all the way up here, though, and I did not want to just turn around and go back home, so I decided to do a different, easy hike, that I have done many times before: North Fork Falls. I have plenty of photos of it, but I have not made a video of it yet, so it seemed like a good plan.

Normally when I go to North Fork Falls, it is winter. It is far too treacherous in the winter to get all the way down to the river. In the spring, however, it is a different story. The last little bit is still quite dangerous, however, so I used my rope for safety. I made it down to the river without any incident. It is a slightly better point of view from river level. North Fork Falls is a very beautiful 27 ft. high waterfall. No one else was around at the falls or on the trail (though I did see people camping in the closed campground – somehow, I was not surprised). It was a lovely, quick and easy hike in the Tahoe National Forest.