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This is a multi-part blog entry that
This is a multi-part blog entry that
documents my trip to the Cleveland
area in early May, 2009.
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This is the first stop of my
spring waterfall tour.
Supposedly, there are two
falls down here:
Blue Hen and Buttermilk.
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-----What a fantastic day for a hike!
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-----These waterfalls are within
Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
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-----Just a wildflower...
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-----This is Blue Hen Falls.
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-----I think I like this landscape
shot better...
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-----Hmmmm...Where
is Buttermilk?
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-----The trail seemed to vanish into
the stream, and there's no path
leading away on the other side.
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-----I came back to Blue Hen
to grab a map from a bunch
of hikers and instead made
some friends!
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-----Members of the Church of the Good
Shepherd Hiking Group asked me
to join their search for Buttermilk.
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-----It's a good thing I agreed!
I never would have found
the waterfall without them!
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Yes, that's the trail between
the roots of that tree and
the drop into the creek!
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-----This is still the same creek.
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----Ah, finally! The top
of Buttermilk!
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-----A side view...
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-----It's quite a little walk to the
base of the ravine.
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-----Wildflowers smile as we pass.
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-----It's much bigger than this
photo reveals. I'm guessing
it's at least 25 feet in height.
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-----Which do you prefer? The landscape
shot above or this vertical one?
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-----The church group asked if
I would help them get back
to their vehicles at Brandywine.
I had not planned to go to
Brandywine today, but I
was thrilled to help out and
to see Brandywine with more
water than when I had
seen it in the autumn of 2007.
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-----Such a majestic waterfall!
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-----Yes, there is much more water in the
headwaters than a year and a half ago.
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-----It's hard to believe, looking at it
from this side, that this little bit of
water can create anything of
significance.
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-----But...
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-----What do you think?
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-----I could stay here for hours,
but the day is wearing on,
and I still have two more
waterfalls to see today...
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