Thursday, July 26, 2007

Possible waterfalls trip Aug 2007

Here is the list of waterfalls that might be interesting for us for the Aug 3, 2007 week end trip.

  1. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_webber.html
  2. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_loves.html
  3. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca-bowman-lake-falls.html
  4. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca-faucherie-lake-falls.html
  5. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_lakeclementine.html
  6. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_paradise.html
  7. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_devil.html
  8. http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca-bear-river-falls.html

Parameters that xxxx had in mind for this short listing

  1. Closer to home - with in couple of hours of driving.
  2. Waterfalls must be beautiful.
  3. multiple Waterfalls clustered in small region
  4. Better than Uvas Canyon waterfalls
  5. Waterfalls in it’s best (/optimal) beuty during July/Aug time
  6. Ease of reaching by car
  7. Not much effort in hiking from the car to get a good view point to view the falls
  8. At-least one swimming hole (webber is a possibility)
  9. If there are other interesting view points on the way or neighboring place – that’s extra.

Other resources to search for waterfalls:

  1. http://www.waterfallswest.com/region_ca.html
  2. http://www.world-waterfalls.com/database.php?s=T&t=G&category=stateprov&search=California&orderby=name
  3. Well…. http://www.google.com/

A possible plan for this trip:

  1. drive on Friday 8/1 evening to Truckee, CA (221 miles/3 hours 37 minutes) or Auburn, CA (155 miles/2 hours 34 minutes) or in between these 2 cities
  2. Halt at Auburn or Truckee.
  3. Start out seeing couple of waterfalls
  4. Get back to hotel on Saturday Night
  5. Packup on Sunday morning – visit more places
  6. Return home on Sunday evening

Alternate LOONG day trip possibility (in this order)

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Creek_Falls
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limekiln_Falls
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur - couple of them
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Molera_Falls

xxxx picture on Mossbrae Falls was on wikipedia’s california:portal from Jan 30th to April 24th 2007. Why not one of us capture the great picture to share….

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