Deep Dark Secret Falls
(aka Yellow Jacket Falls) This double-pronged statuesque beauty of a waterfall marks the special occasion of my 200th Waterfall Excursion! ~In terms of the photo perspective, if you were sitting on that tree trunk across the base of the waterfall, you would be about 1/8 inch high. Deep Dark Secret Falls sits about 150 yards upstream from the previous waterfall photo I shared, "Deep Secret Falls" and in order to reach the base here, one has to scale a near vertical ravine ridgeline on river-right about 150 feet in height climbing above the creek, shift vertically to the NW, bushwhack another 200 feet parallel to the creek and then descend back down the steep ridgeline to cross over fallen trees serving as a passageway to the base. It came to be known as "Yellow Jacket Falls" when waterfall explorer/photographer "Waterfall Rich" visited for the first time, (after receiving word and a topo map from Bernie Boyer who had mapped the locations) stepped into a Yellow Jacket nest and was stung numerous times. There are six major waterfalls in the Crane Creek Gorge. Beginning at the top: Deadfall Falls, Prospector Falls, Deep Dark Secret Falls (Yellow Jacket Falls), Deep Secret Falls (Crane Creek Falls), Secret Falls and Crane Falls. Beginning at Deadfall Falls, Crane Creek drops almost 1000 feet in elevation to Crane Falls, the last waterfall in the bottom of the gorge. It was a great time to make this excursion with my friends and waterfall hiking explorer/photographers Harmon Caldwell, Renee Hattenstein and Scott McGaha.
Deep Dark Secret Falls
(aka Yellow Jacket Falls) This double-pronged statuesque beauty of a waterfall marks the special occasion of my 200th Waterfall Excursion! ~In terms of the photo perspective, if you were sitting on that tree trunk across the base of the waterfall, you would be about 1/8 inch high. Deep Dark Secret Falls sits about 150 yards upstream from the previous waterfall photo I shared, "Deep Secret Falls" and in order to reach the base here, one has to scale a near vertical ravine ridgeline on river-right about 150 feet in height climbing above the creek, shift vertically to the NW, bushwhack another 200 feet parallel to the creek and then descend back down the steep ridgeline to cross over fallen trees serving as a passageway to the base. It came to be known as "Yellow Jacket Falls" when waterfall explorer/photographer "Waterfall Rich" visited for the first time, (after receiving word and a topo map from Bernie Boyer who had mapped the locations) stepped into a Yellow Jacket nest and was stung numerous times. There are six major waterfalls in the Crane Creek Gorge. Beginning at the top: Deadfall Falls, Prospector Falls, Deep Dark Secret Falls (Yellow Jacket Falls), Deep Secret Falls (Crane Creek Falls), Secret Falls and Crane Falls. Beginning at Deadfall Falls, Crane Creek drops almost 1000 feet in elevation to Crane Falls, the last waterfall in the bottom of the gorge. It was a great time to make this excursion with my friends and waterfall hiking explorer/photographers Harmon Caldwell, Renee Hattenstein and Scott McGaha.