DELUGE
It was a very rainy Saturday. I kinda wanted to do this hike, but not in the rain. I thought about going in the evening and camping by the falls. Even though it is a very easy day hike, I just kinda felt like doing this. Then my daughter said she would come with me, but she did not want to stay overnight. Well, all righty then. Let’s just do a day hike in the evening.
We drove through a couple deluges on the drive over in the late afternoon. Extremely heavy rain. Lightning. Thunder. Hail. Yeah, this should be fun. When we arrived at the trailhead, it was still raining. Thick clouds all around. But within 10 minutes, the rain stopped and the sun started to come out. This should be the end of the rain for the evening. The rest of the hike should be very pleasant. Well, not quite. We did encounter one more rain shower after that and a bit more hail, but mostly it was a lovely hike.
The last bit of the hike to get down to the waterfall is steep, and off-trail. The brush was thick. It was strange, though, because the brush seemed easy enough to walk on, but it was deep and that made it very tricky and potentially dangerous. Nekoda got halfway down, but did not want to continue all the way to the bottom. She decided to just wait for me on a rock. It was still a long way to the bottom, and I did not want to leave her up there by herself for too long, so I decided to not go all the way down either. I found a viewpoint from further up and tried to take photos from there. It was not bad, but would have been better from the bottom. This new discovery is 127 ft. high, a beautiful tiered cascade. I will have to come back sometime and get down to the creek level, before that brush gets really bad. It was a lovely rainy day hike in Eldorado National Forest.
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