Falls on Tributary to Nichols Brook
June 10, 2012
Keene, NY, Essex County
Where are the falls on the Tributary to Nichols Brook? You don't know? Well, I'm afraid I can't tell you either really....and I was just there. We searched....but couldn't find either one of the supposed 15-20 foot cascades. We did find the small ones in the above pictures. We walked all the way to the vista and scenic rock outcroppings described in the cascade book I have been using. We also saw a beaver floating in a severely flooded area possibly covering up the cascades. We watched over on the rocks where climbers were in various states of decent or ascent, it was hard to tell from the distance we were at. But.....
Let's talk flowers! We spotted so many that we had not seen or photographed before as well as some old stand-bys that we have identified before. Some of flowers we found were Indian Cucumber Root(right), Tall Meadow Rue, Clustered Snake Root (above) and False Solomon's Seal(left) to name a few.
One of the other interesting or ironic things that happened was this...we were on our way home, driving on Rt 73 and were detoured due to some sort of accident or emergency. We were just kind of following the flow of traffic, not knowing where we were detouring to. We decided to take a road, which I believe was Rt 9N and it led us past Split Rock Falls in Elizabethtown, NY. Wow! What a falls! We do hope to go back some day so that we can get a few more pictures of it without the people climbing all over it as it was when we first spotted it. There were bunches of kids climbing up half way and jumping into the pool in the bottom of the falls. Oh to be a teenager or in my early 20's again. I would have definately been one of them jumping off.
So what turned out to be a search for one set of falls, turned out to be a flower extravangaza and then a huge unexpected set of falls. What a great day! I am including a picture of a field of buttercups which we took and thought was pretty. Enjoy!
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