Hungarian Falls
Hungarian Falls is a series of falls on a creek in the Hubble area. Most of the falls are small but the "main" falls are impressive. I took the following pics on my July 1999 camping trip with my brother. Both of us managed to get our feet wet on this stop, the footing isn't so hot in some spots along the creek.
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Let's start out small and work our way up to the main event. This is one of the smaller falls. (middle of the picture, behind the fallen tree) |
| Definitely a much better shot of another one of the smaller falls. I'm sorry I'm not that much of a writer. I've got so much space available next to this photo, and I've got nothing to say!:) |
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Now I can definitely tell you something about this one. This may look like just a little drip of a waterfall, but to get to this point the water had to have dropped a good 80 feet. There was just no way my dinky camera was going to get a good shot of the entire height of it. A real shame too because the cliff had a wonderful mix of reddish browns and whites. |
| We're almost there, I swear.:) This little falls is below the "main" falls and to the right of the last photo if you were looking from downstream. (The really tall and thin falls appear to be a tributary to the main creek) |
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Here it is, the mother-lode! Aren't they neat? The picture would've looked better if I had cut that branch down that's obstructing the view.:) |
UPDATE
My wife and I returned to Hungarian falls in Aug 2003, and I found out that on my last visit I did not quite get the rest of the story.
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Upstream from what I thought was the 'mother lode' is the true Upper Hungarian falls. I suppose it's not quite as spectacular as the Lower falls, but it is pretty. If you look closely you'll see my darling wife sitting up at the top of the falls waving back at the camera. (She's a bit in the shadow's so is a bit hard to spot.) |
| Nature provided somewhat of a coda to our trip to the Hungarian Falls area. this cute little falls is just upstream from the last picture. It also provides a bit of excitement for the industrial archeaologist in me. The top of the falls is capped off with a hewn timber with a couple of spikes. It looks like remnants of a lumbering dam used for moving lumber downstream. |
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