A Weekend at Silver Falls State Park

One weekend in November we went to Silver Falls State Park, close enough for a day trip. We wanted to take the Airstream but due to unforeseen administrative difficulties (the storage space had blocked our entry code because I had forgotten to pay the bill) we had to go without it.

In our usual serendipitous way we managed to rent one of the log cabins there for a night and then had an overnight experience anyway. —

There's an awful lot of waterfalls and mushrooms and mossy trees in the pictures. That's because one sees an awful lot of mushrooms and waterfalls in the park, once you start to look for them (the mushrooms). Please bear with us. It was actually awesome.

The last few images are Robin posing for me; they turned out nice. Big versions of the images ar as always here.

A technical note: Some images and the videos have been taken with the iPad (IMG_*), the others with my Sony RX100 (DSC*), including most of the mushroom macro pictures.

The first three links here are little mp4 video clips. I have shrunk them to stamp size because I figured you don't want to count the leaves or anything. You can hear Michelle and Robin talk in them.

A 16 second video clip showing Double Falls. Michelle is talking. 3MB.	A 35 second clip (7 MB) with Robin talking. "Guck mal an, einer ist ganz moßig!"	A 10 second clip showing Robin and me at South Falls. Michelle and Robin talking. 2MB.
The remaining links are still images.

	Often you can walk behind the falls due to intermediate softer rock layers which erode inward. Pretty cool.
This temperate rain forest often resembles a multi-layered palimpsest. Here a tree had grown over the trunk of a downed tree. The trunk over time was consumed by insects and mushrooms so that it left a hollow space in the roots of the now mature living tree which in turn is host to many plants and animals.	In the little cabin that we rented.
	Mushrooms rule!




More waterfalls!		In Michelle's polka-dotted raincoat :-)
	The largest maple leaves were from young trees.	You figure it won't break off today of all days, will it.
These are actually mushrooms.


The time and place where Robin took the second video above.		An image taken from behind the fall. I moved the camera with the falling water to get a sharp image of the drops.
		Unknown fellow hikers living dangerously.
	Different unknown fellow hikers, living less dangerously.
Robin is doing martial arts poses... specifically, Power Ranger poses.

A Weekend at Silver Falls State Park

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