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Can not find a thread on this falls even though Kyle makes mention of one. Good flow last weekend on the 4th. Still on a 1 to 5 I would give this a 1-2. Yes it is big, but there is no challenge to get there. It does not have a pool and as mentioned below, the base looks like a war or bulldozer went through.

If you want to kayak up in Lake placid and want this as a back drop, then maybe. Even still the highway runs along upper and lower cascade lake where the falls is.

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Rather than repeat, here are Kyle's notes from last year...
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Re: This weekend
by L_G_D » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:18 am

I was in the Adirondacks for the weekend, and it was cold and rainy there too. Did manage to get to Split Rock, Wilmington Flume and Cascade Lakes. But mostly we drove around looking at the damage from Irene. Keene Valley & Keene are getting back in shape, the roads are passable, but you can see where some people are going to have a hard time of it for a while. The greatest change that struck me was Cascade Lakes Falls. I will be posting some pictures later as soon as I process them, but let's just say for anyone who has been there and is familiar with what the falls used to look like, well, it doesn't look like that anymore. The falls themselves are pretty much the same, that was solid rock, so no big change there, but they are about 8-10 feet taller now that the flood has removed that much fill from the pool at the bottom. The stream leading down from the falls to the lake looks like a large buldozer drove down it scraping all the gravel and boulders away down to bedrock in some places. There are no trees or underbrush for 50 to 100 feet on each side of the stream and there are large piles of broken timber on both sides of the stream. The old trail is almost obliterated, and you just walk up the streambed for the most part, which has also changed course slightly. Amazing the power of water. There were so many trees cleared from around the stream that you can easily see the falls from the road driving by, and even well above the falls to the next set of falls that you could never see before.
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David - I found the existing topic & merged your post with it. If a search on the message boards yields no results, you can always go here and probably find a link to the existing topics.
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:confused: me? Or is LGD's real name Kyle?

I'm guessing you mean Cascade Lake vs Lake Placid?

Great pics! :up: :up: Are those from up on Pitchoff Mt?
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Oh, yeah. L_G_D's real name is Loren. Kyle is some other guy. ;)
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Sorry Kyle, or Maybe I should say sorry Loren!

These are from as close to the road right in that park between the lakes. Very hazy day. The approach to the bottom of the falls is still as you said, blown out. Not as pretty, no more pool. Tree shrapnel everywhere. And Buggy as heck.
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Oh wow it looks as though you're looking down on the whole set of falls. This will definitely be on my list of stops for this years fall trek.
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That is a nice view, I was there recently and there's still not much recovery from Irene, though it makes for some interesting shots. I'm really curious as to what the upper sections look like now, but I can't imagine trying to climb up there. Before Irene, there were spots where the only way to get past some places was to hold onto the trees, and since there are almost no trees there anymore, it would be a bit more difficult and dangerous.
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We were there is August and like LGD said it is still rough. The water wasn't flowing much either.
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