Comet Falls, Close Up
Aug. 22nd, 2022 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerLet's see, where was I? Sunday, Sunday, Sunday... Yes, Comet Falls!
"LOLWUT?" you might be thinking. "You found a huge waterfalls while driving an EV 500+ miles across the desert?"
LOL no, not yesterday Sunday; Sunday three Sundays ago. When we took a 3-day weekend trip to the Pacific Northwest. Yes, I'm still clearing my blog backlog with stuff from 15 days ago. (The backlog is actually way more than that counting the hikes from late June I still haven't written in detail about. 😨)
Just seeing Comet Falls from 1/4 mile away wasn't enough, especially after hiking a steep trail to get there despite passing so many smaller falls along the way. Nope, I had to get close enough to the falls that I was getting wet. ...Though in this case I don't mean going under the falls. This waterfall is a 300' drop; going under would be very dangerous. Just standing back as far as in the photo above I was getting wet with spray.
The photo above wasn't just the border of where I started getting wet with spray. It was also as close as I could get and still capture the entire main tier of the falls with my camera lens. (It's a 15mm focal length on an APS-C size sensor, BTW.) Capturing a photo closer required using my super-wide lens... which failed to work again. Aughh!!!
Sadly, just like at Covel Falls two days earlier, my camera flashed an error message when I tried attaching the wide lens. Again, like then, I tried detaching and reattaching the lens, powering off and on the camera multiple times, and brushing clean the electronic contacts on the lens and camera mount with a cloth. Nothing worked.
Dejected, I picked my way back down the narrow footpath to the main trail where Hawk was waiting. "This lens is busted again," I told her. "The first time I need it in two days after carrying it on every hike, and now, here, it breaks," I vented. "I'm thinking of just dropping it over a cliff again."
"Why not try it one more time?" she asked.
I gritted my teeth because I already had tried it, like, ten more times already. But I gave it one more go. Surprise, the damn thing worked!
With a frustrated grumble I turned around and picked my way back up the narrow footpath to the slippery vantage point overlooking the falls.
Boom!
"LOLWUT?" you might be thinking. "You found a huge waterfalls while driving an EV 500+ miles across the desert?"
LOL no, not yesterday Sunday; Sunday three Sundays ago. When we took a 3-day weekend trip to the Pacific Northwest. Yes, I'm still clearing my blog backlog with stuff from 15 days ago. (The backlog is actually way more than that counting the hikes from late June I still haven't written in detail about. 😨)
Just seeing Comet Falls from 1/4 mile away wasn't enough, especially after hiking a steep trail to get there despite passing so many smaller falls along the way. Nope, I had to get close enough to the falls that I was getting wet. ...Though in this case I don't mean going under the falls. This waterfall is a 300' drop; going under would be very dangerous. Just standing back as far as in the photo above I was getting wet with spray.
The photo above wasn't just the border of where I started getting wet with spray. It was also as close as I could get and still capture the entire main tier of the falls with my camera lens. (It's a 15mm focal length on an APS-C size sensor, BTW.) Capturing a photo closer required using my super-wide lens... which failed to work again. Aughh!!!
Sadly, just like at Covel Falls two days earlier, my camera flashed an error message when I tried attaching the wide lens. Again, like then, I tried detaching and reattaching the lens, powering off and on the camera multiple times, and brushing clean the electronic contacts on the lens and camera mount with a cloth. Nothing worked.
Dejected, I picked my way back down the narrow footpath to the main trail where Hawk was waiting. "This lens is busted again," I told her. "The first time I need it in two days after carrying it on every hike, and now, here, it breaks," I vented. "I'm thinking of just dropping it over a cliff again."
"Why not try it one more time?" she asked.
I gritted my teeth because I already had tried it, like, ten more times already. But I gave it one more go. Surprise, the damn thing worked!
With a frustrated grumble I turned around and picked my way back up the narrow footpath to the slippery vantage point overlooking the falls.
Boom!
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