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Foster Falls

There is nothing quite like the feeling that overtakes you when you hike all day with a pack on your back, and near the end of the hike you begin to hear a low rumble in the distance. As you walk the rumble grows louder and louder until it vibrates the very earth you are standing on. You come around a bend and then you see it. This massive wall of water thundering down the canyon wall. Plunging and tumbling into the pool below. Smashing everything in it's path. Crushing rocks into pebbles. One of the most powerful punishments water can muster up. Yet this massive display of nature's fury always evokes the same response in me (and most others that I have observed) --A tremendous sense of peace overwhelms me every time. It is as though the human psyche recognizes the futility of challenging such a display of natures power and all willingness to fight, struggle, even think about daily stresses vanishes into the misty slipstream ejected from the foot of the falls. This is one of the most enchanting experiences I have ever had. It is not unusual for someone to sit in isolation at the base of a waterfall for an hour or more. Just sitting and not thinking.    

This is a really BIG fall. The gorge downstream of this fall is extremely rugged and because of that it is almost totally pristine.

This is the same fall in a photo taken from the area of the plunge pool.

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