Silver Falls, Oregon

[Mason Jarr]

I visited a friend in Oregon in November and hiked in the Silver Falls State Park, a beautiful and amazing spot with about 8 or 9 falls in a four mile hiking loop. This is one of the smaller ones, but I think the drop is about 89 feet. I misplaced the memory card with the photos, but I was digging through my camera gear backpack tonight and found it. I'm glad I did. I didn't get a lot of good photos, but I liked this one the best.

 

[vito]

Great looking place and shot. Are these falls naturally?

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

the trails in our Parks? We have a member posting on this Forum that loves to hike the hiking trails in California. He has posted some beautiful slide shows . Thanks for sharing this picture, Kelley (Texas)

 

[Nancy-IL]

Another piece of heaven. Did you get into the water? Beautiful picture.

 

[DavefromCt]

Beautiful shot....what a great scene!

 

[JimmyCT]

There are some areas of America that scream nature and beauty. This picture depicts just that.

 

[Mason Jarr]

Thank you all.

Vito: Yes, these are all natural falls and pour through channels they've eroded in the rocks.

Kelley: Yes, I do quite a bit of hiking and backpacking, but usually not in parks. Typically I hike in wilderness areas where sometimes they trails are pretty rough. I don't know how many more years I'll be doing that though as I'll be 56 this summer.

Nancy: I didn't get in the water. It was pretty cold that day. In fact if you look closely you can see ice from the spray on either side of the falls. As I remember it was around 30 degrees. The hiking trail actually goes behind the falls. You can see the trail just to the right of the fall and we got a little wet when we went through there. That was plenty for me!

 

[Nancy-IL]

Mason, I can see it now that you pointed it out. Thank you. Yes, that would be a bit nippy to say the least at that temperature. Your photographs are stunning and I thank you for sharing them. 56 isn't all that bad.