Day 34 July 16 2010

We started out with the intent to see waterfalls and go to Crater Lake. We did see some waterfalls, but cratered out on going all the way to Crater Lake. The first waterfall was just a short walk, the next was almost a mile one way very pretty and not a bad climb to see it, the next was a mile each way and you can see by the pics quite a climb we passed thru narrows and it was a narrow climb up to it. The weather was much hotter than what we had been use to and there were mosquitoes and we had forgot our spray. We decided after that climb we would go a little farther and see one more waterfall and then try for the Crater Lake, but the road was so twisty it would have been a couple more hours getting there and then the long drive back, so we decided to just turn around and come back to camp.

Guess what? We get our gas pumped and windows washed in Oregon. Getting spoiled. Nice display of our flag.

The view point sign.

This was interesting to see. The two rivers meet here and they have had quite some floods in the past. The water would be up over the sign and it is quite a way down to the rivers from here.

The water is so clear.

In the afternoons this is a good swimming hole also.

Pat is enjoying the wild flowers along the path.

A short story of when this area was flooded in 1964.

Driving up the canyon, a river flows beside the highway, many fishermen also.

The beginning of a trail that we hiked about almost a mile to get to the falls. Info sign for the next few pics.

A large Laurel Tree that has fallen.

"X" marks the spot.

A fallen tree that they made into a bench if you needed to stop and rest.

We made the hike OK to the falls.

Another nice waterfall we saw.

Also up at the waterfall look what I found.

Remember, this was a one mile hike to get here also.

We could have crossed the bridge and went another 1/2 mile but we elected not to do that.

Now to another trail to another waterfall.

This one is a bit more of a challenge we think.

The hike was interesting, it went though a couple of boulders.

And then a large rock and a tree.

As you can see we are going higher also.

A rather large tree that had fallen across the trail they had to cut.

And higher. This was a steep hike. Close to an elevation climb of about 1,100 ft.

A small waterfall along the trail.

Watch your head, there is a tree that is over the trail.

And another one that they had to cut so hikers could continue to the falls.

These falls are about 50 ft. tall.

Proof the we made it.

From another angle we could see what was feeding the falls. There were actually two falls here one was about 30 ft. drop and the larger one was about 50 ft. drop.

On the way back to the starting point of our hike we had someone take our picture going through the two boulders.

Pat found a rather large tree that had been cut to open the trail.

What would they be mining for????

A small waterfall along the roadway.

Back to Roseburg where we started .