AlanLichty
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By mid November most of the leaves in Oregon's coast range have fallen and the fall rains have filled all the creeks. Not so in the fall of 2018 when the rains held back and the waterfalls I was expecting to shoot were a mere trickle in places where I usually encountered more robust flows. This scene along Sweet Creek is usually an array of falls filling in all of the exposed rock faces. Additionally one of the trailside trees had fallen across the creek blocking the view upstream. I was kind of bummed about the blocked view and was left wondering what whether the Forest Service would somehow remove it. The tree was gone the next time I visited in the spring without a trace of how it was removed. I assumed maybe a helicopter had yanked it out since at the time I had never seen Sweet Creek during heavy winter rains. Turns out the water coming over the basalt where you see the small waterfall here can get up to 3 or 4 feet deep and sounds like a jet at full throttle during takeoff. Trees like this one get tossed around like toothpicks and the branches break off as they get smashed into the surrounding rocks. A far cry from this rather tranquil view I captured that day.
Pile on with whatever falling water you can find.
Pile on with whatever falling water you can find.
