canyonwalker: My other car is a pair of hiking boots (in beauty I walk)
canyonwalker ([personal profile] canyonwalker) wrote2024-04-26 07:12 pm

McLean Falls and the Chute

Having hiked all the way out to McLean Falls, not that "all the way" was very far (I think it was about a mile), we lingered for a while. Of course, with the beauty of these falls it's hard to rationalize leaving.

McLean Falls, New Zealand (Apr 2024)

As I remarked in my previous blog, I didn't carry my tripod with me on this hike, a decision I regretted by the time I got to these falls, but I free-handed these slow exposure pictures as best I could. For some of them (I forget which now) I braced my camera atop my knee while sitting on a wet rock.

McLean Falls, New Zealand (Apr 2024)

At the bottom of the steep hill below McLean Falls there's a trail sign that points to "The Chute" in the other direction. We saw it on the way in, a much smaller falls that we could really only glimpse through the trees alongside the path. "Let see if we can get a better view of those falls on the way out," we agreed on the way in.

The Chute neat McLean Falls, New Zealand (Apr 2024)

While there no good view from the main trail we found a footpath down to the creek below the falls. It required careful footwork not to slip on mud and wet rocks, but we're experienced hikers wearing good boots.
Still to come: time for one more waterfall today!


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[personal profile] silmaril 2024-04-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Those are still magnificent pictures, lack of equipment or not.
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[personal profile] solarbird 2024-05-01 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
I like those a lot.