PA waterfalls, iron furnace and railroad tunnel

Tessa HDTessa HD Registered Users Posts: 852 Major grins
edited April 1, 2010 in Journeys
We took a day and traveled about 1 1/2 hours south to see some rural waterfalls and surrounding sights. Our 'guide' has a passion for finding all of the waterfalls in NW-PA, and what an awesome journey we had.

Potter's Falls

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an ice flower
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Freedom Falls

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don't know why but this reminded me of an old pipe organ. you can see the water drops on my lens - it was impossible to take this without getting wet!
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these little ice pearls fascinated me. they formed from dripping water from the cliff above.
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now i'm getting nervous walking on icy rocks with my camera, but it had a happy ending!
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a view from the far side of Freedom Falls.
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a rugged view above
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another view from the far side of Freedom Falls. i hope to return this summer and hopefully swim!
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Slightly downstream is an old Iron Furnace which we thought resembled a Mayan ruin.
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I crawled inside and used a flash to see what the inside of the chimney looked like.
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there were two stone channels leading up to it, which at one time were obviously connected to the stream below Freedom Falls.
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down the road a mile is a rails to trails route that takes you into an old railroad tunnel about 1/2 mile through the mountain. Once inside, you can't see any light for awhile because the tunnel turns at the end.
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we're starting our hike to the third waterfall, and we're pretty high up. below is the clarion river.
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Gary and I are getting nervous because it's starting to get dark and we're still a good distance away from Alum Rock Falls!
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Here it is after a long descent and rugged hike. This picture does NO justice to what is actually there. It's quite large. And the picture doesn't show a large plateau area. The streams around here were on solid rock, no soil and gravel - very neat to see.
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We came out of the woods by moonlight - thank goodness it was nearly a full moon! It was quite a magical day.
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Comments

  • jdmphotojdmphoto Registered Users Posts: 159 Major grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    Very nice series of photo'sthumb.gif I really like the Ice formations and the color of the water at Freedom falls.
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  • Cheri Campbell-GodfreyCheri Campbell-Godfrey Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited January 24, 2008
    Tessa, I love the one of the Freedom Falls. The one where you are inside the furnace, you should have had my Brother climb to the top and have his face on the opening.:D Very nice pictures. You'll have to take me there this spring when the weather turns nice.

    Cheri
  • Ed911Ed911 Registered Users Posts: 1,306 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    Waterfall picture...
    246571253-L[1] Modified.jpgThought you might like this version of your picture...wonder shot you have here....
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  • adpaceadpace Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2008
    This is so nice Tessa! This is my stomping grounds and it just brings back so many fond memories! Really nice images - thank you!
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  • swintonphotoswintonphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,664 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    Tessa HD wrote:

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    These are my favorite - especially the third one. Lovely.
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  • ulrikftulrikft Registered Users Posts: 372 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2008
    Great pictures! Reminds me that I have to get out in the woods :)
    -Ulrik

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  • Tessa HDTessa HD Registered Users Posts: 852 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2008
    Thank you so much - very nice! I think this was my favorite shot from the day so I'm hoping I can get it to a printable quality that I'm happy with.
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  • Tessa HDTessa HD Registered Users Posts: 852 Major grins
    edited January 28, 2008
    adpace wrote:
    This is so nice Tessa! This is my stomping grounds and it just brings back so many fond memories! Really nice images - thank you!

    Your old stomping grounds?! You had a nice 'backyard'. We really enjoyed the scenery in the area. Thanks for your comment.
    Love to dream, and dream in color.

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  • Signguy GarySignguy Gary Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
    edited April 1, 2010
    This is neat a friend who shoots with my son and I was searching the web for locations to shoot waterfalls after last nights trip to Alum Rock. Anyone who has been to Alum rock knows the steep hike down and back, we hiked about 30 yds to the bottom and saw a mother bear with two really small cubs in the clearing to the left, we tried to get some shots but the branches between us and the bear kept screwing with the focus and with the cubs screaming and the mother tring to get them hid we figured it was a good idea to exit the area.

    Lucky for us we are only about 20 mins from Alum Rock and 30 mins or so from Freedom falls ( I plan on getting to Freedom falls and Potter falls this spring )

    I was told by the guy who took us down to the falls that trips to Alum Rock in the summer is not recommended apparently it is very highly populated with Copper Heads

    Later
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