This is a sweet waterfall near Steamboat Springs in Colorado. To walk from the parking lot to overlooks of the falls takes about 5 minutes, and only about 5 more to hike to the little bridge at the bottom... but then you can hike up the other side, which goes much higher, something like half a vertical mile. We spent over an hour hiking up, and didn't get to the top.
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This is the first overlook you come to. |
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Kim photographing her parents and the dog. |
(video) A little movie clip of the waterfall from this upper lookout area. |
(video) This is a movie clip of the river at the bottom, near the little bridge. You can really see how fast the water is moving here. |
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View from the little bridge at the bottom. |
Downriver view from the little bridge at the bottom. |
Kim showing the river who's boss. |
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Going up the other side. It was a tough, steep hike. |
One of the many snow-capped views to be had. |
Left to right: Heidi, Kim. |
Random mountain flowerage. |
You can see that the river is pretty serious. |
You're looking at a downhill there, and on the left where the white stops is a big waterfall underneath. |
This rock outcropping sits about 15 feet above the downhill flow from the previous shot. |
A sweet aspen grove. I was dead tired by this point, but Kim was trucking. It was still pretty uphill here. |
The trail and the moon are on the right here. |
A more close-up shot of the trail and the moon. |
Mrs. Allen and Heidi looking triumphant at the top of our hike (which sadly didn't go to the top of the trail/river; we were really beat). |
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The confused Allen family shot; all going in different directions for some reason?? |
This view is from the top of a REALLY tall rock we climbed up, on the side of the trail on the way back down. You can see a little town in the far valley there, that's Steamboat Springs. The swath of bright green in the center is all the treetops of the aspen grove from before. |
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At the bottom on the way out, there was this faint rainbow on the waterfall. |