Salt Creek Falls

Salt Creek Falls
Originally uploaded by TimsPottery.

Salt Creek Falls (in this picture) was formed by a lava flow into an existing valley. The distance from top to bottom is 262 feet. There is a sign on the side of the creek about fifty yards from the falls warning about dangerous falls ahead. Seems like an understatement to me.

On Saturday, Kim and I packed up the dogs, three bottles of water, and a pound of cashews and made the hour and fifteen minute drive to Salt Creek Falls. We did the 3 mile loop trail from there to Diamond Falls, which if not as spectacular, is just as pretty. Once we hit the trail, the mosquitos started hitting us and the dogs. A little bug dope kept them at bay from us, and we kept moving so they wouldn't have too much of a chance at the dogs. For the first half of the hike, we moved in and out of mosquito pockets. They left us alone for the second half.

I took a boatload of pictures at Diamond Falls, but the sun against the bright water against the dark background of basalt and pine trees made for too much contrast, even with the polarizer. Hence, no posted pictures.

On the way back we stopped a DQ for burgers and a Heath Bar blizzard which almost put me in a diabetic coma. All in all, a good, if warm, hike.