From this past weekend trip with photo buddy Bob Clark. All the rivers and creeks were seasonally low even though we were soaked by storms passing through that day.

This is perhaps a four or five foot drop and marks the beginning of the Glissade. The First Falls, maybe a fifteen foot drop, is partly visible in the upper right. The Glissade gradually ends as it becomes the Second Falls, a hefty twenty foot drop. And who knows what all is downriver from there. But I do know that the climb back up from downriver will be a bear. Ask Bob about his bushwhacking adventure trying to get out from below Second Falls. He did battle with the Rhodo-Ents.

I photographed in the headwaters bog (I have been calling it Olsen Bog) enjoying its unique flora several years ago, but I didn’t explore downstream. Fran and I found the falls a few weeks ago after revisiting the bog. We could hear them roaring below us but didn’t feel like bushwhacking down to explore that day.

I look forward to visiting this little gem in the spring when the groundwater and headwater Olsen Bog are fully charged.

I have a number of images to work up and post from this short trip of Big Run, Shays Run, and Canaan Bog, so if you like this one stay tuned!

From a single exposure: 28-90 Vario-Elmarit, Zeiss circular polarizer, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.