Hiking to Comet Falls, part 2
Aug. 19th, 2022 06:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIn my previous blog I wrote about the trail to Comet Falls. There's good news and bad news. Bad news: it goes up, up, up. Good news: there are so many waterfalls along the way. Those made great places to pause for rests. What's the saying... "In beauty I stop to catch my breath"? Yeah, something like that.
When I say the trail is up, up, up, I mean stuff like this:
Okay, this was one of the hairier parts of the trail. Most of the trail was only half as steep. Though seldom were there steps.
Oh, but there were more waterfalls. So many more waterfalls.
We knew we were getting close when we reached this falls. We knew we were close because we were pacing ourselves. We figured we were about 90% of the way there, both in distance and elevation gain. The view I found for this picture (above) was a smidge off the trail. This is a side falls in the canyon that pours into the main creek.
Above those side falls are more side falls!
This trio of waterfalls apparently fools so many people that there's a sign next to the trail that says, basically, "NOT Comet Falls". We didn't need that sign because we'd seen a picture of Comet Falls on the cover of a calendar for sale in the visitors center the day before. As impressive as this triple falls is, Comet Falls is much.... impressive-r. And per the "NOT Comet Falls" sign it was supposedly only another 200m away.
Update: Keep reading as we reach the real Comet Falls!
When I say the trail is up, up, up, I mean stuff like this:
Okay, this was one of the hairier parts of the trail. Most of the trail was only half as steep. Though seldom were there steps.
Oh, but there were more waterfalls. So many more waterfalls.
We knew we were getting close when we reached this falls. We knew we were close because we were pacing ourselves. We figured we were about 90% of the way there, both in distance and elevation gain. The view I found for this picture (above) was a smidge off the trail. This is a side falls in the canyon that pours into the main creek.
Above those side falls are more side falls!
This trio of waterfalls apparently fools so many people that there's a sign next to the trail that says, basically, "NOT Comet Falls". We didn't need that sign because we'd seen a picture of Comet Falls on the cover of a calendar for sale in the visitors center the day before. As impressive as this triple falls is, Comet Falls is much.... impressive-r. And per the "NOT Comet Falls" sign it was supposedly only another 200m away.
Update: Keep reading as we reach the real Comet Falls!
