Teneriffe Falls
May. 9th, 2026 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I went for a hike earlier this week - it was a pretty nice day, warm, but the cloud wasn't going to clear until mid afternoon or so, so I thought it would be a good day to stick to forest instead of heading for the mountain tops. A waterfall always looks good even in flat light :-)
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, did it really fall? Well, sometimes, yes, it very much did! There's still a lot of damage from the winter's storms on some roads and trails that hasn't been fixed yet. But work has started, since the trunk has been chainsawed away.
A few bleeding hearts alongside the trail, just past their best and starting to fade.
I don't know what these are, but they were very happy and frequent along the lower reaches of the trail.
Lower Teneriffe Falls. There's nowhere to get a really good view of this part, always some trees in the way where the best angle from the trail is.
But that doesn't matter because the upper falls are where it's at - plunging down a rock face far too tall to get everything in one shot, with the top of the falls merging into the cloud layer.
A small part of the upper falls in close up.
Not the main plunge pool at the bottom, just a little one part way down.
Hiking back down from the falls, the cloud was starting to lift a bit more, giving better views across the valley. Here you can see over to Rattlesnake Ledge on the right, above Rattlesnake Lake.
A switchback in the trail with rocky outcrop above the valley.
Seven miles round trip, and about 1500 feet of elevation. It was good to get out for the first time this year without snow!
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, did it really fall? Well, sometimes, yes, it very much did! There's still a lot of damage from the winter's storms on some roads and trails that hasn't been fixed yet. But work has started, since the trunk has been chainsawed away.
A few bleeding hearts alongside the trail, just past their best and starting to fade.
I don't know what these are, but they were very happy and frequent along the lower reaches of the trail.
Lower Teneriffe Falls. There's nowhere to get a really good view of this part, always some trees in the way where the best angle from the trail is.
But that doesn't matter because the upper falls are where it's at - plunging down a rock face far too tall to get everything in one shot, with the top of the falls merging into the cloud layer.
A small part of the upper falls in close up.
Not the main plunge pool at the bottom, just a little one part way down.
Hiking back down from the falls, the cloud was starting to lift a bit more, giving better views across the valley. Here you can see over to Rattlesnake Ledge on the right, above Rattlesnake Lake.
A switchback in the trail with rocky outcrop above the valley.
Seven miles round trip, and about 1500 feet of elevation. It was good to get out for the first time this year without snow!
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Date: 2026-05-10 06:17 am (UTC)