Upper Purgatatory Falls
To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of breaking my right arm, I hiked to the Upper Purgatory Falls. I figured today was a perfect day to risk breaking another limb (or worse) 😄. It had snowed here heavily a few days ago, and the trail to the falls was brutal. It took me almost an hour to go 1 mile, only to find out that the bridge to the good side of the stream (from which the view of the falls is said to be better) had collapsed. I had to slowly struggle down a steep snowy slope, full of jagged boulders, roots and fallen branches (threatening to impale or blind me if I slipped), to get down to the spot where I could take some photos. There I parked myself under a massive overhang from which hung huge, 15-foot-long icicles, any one of which would have surely smashed my skull to pieces had it lost its grip on the granite.
Upper Purgatatory Falls
To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of breaking my right arm, I hiked to the Upper Purgatory Falls. I figured today was a perfect day to risk breaking another limb (or worse) 😄. It had snowed here heavily a few days ago, and the trail to the falls was brutal. It took me almost an hour to go 1 mile, only to find out that the bridge to the good side of the stream (from which the view of the falls is said to be better) had collapsed. I had to slowly struggle down a steep snowy slope, full of jagged boulders, roots and fallen branches (threatening to impale or blind me if I slipped), to get down to the spot where I could take some photos. There I parked myself under a massive overhang from which hung huge, 15-foot-long icicles, any one of which would have surely smashed my skull to pieces had it lost its grip on the granite.