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June, Devil's Kitchen http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 844&type=3
October, Black Chasm and Indian Head Mountain http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 844&type=3
Select pictures that radiate awesomeness (but check out all the pictures on my facebook links, there are some very cool ones.:
Icebox, again
Gray Rock Falls? This is the waterfall downstream from Greene Falls / The Ghost. Big, deep swimming hole beneath this one (every waterfall downstream from this also has a fantastic swimming hole. Every waterfall upstream from here is not deep enough to truly swim in
Another shot of Gray Rock(?) - I call this one Lexifer's Plunge. Notice the eroded cave behind the waterfall.
Greene Falls / The Ghost. In my above post, I have pictures looking down at this. The top cliff you can see in this picture is where I was standing a few weeks ago. Hell Hole Confluence Waterall (lower rainbow?) is upstream from this cascade.
Bad quality photograph, but this is Red Rock canyon or whatever you people call it. This is really a spectacular section of the valley, this photo does it no justice. At the bottom of this part of the stream, there is a swimming hole. Red sandstone and shale cliffs rise for hundreds of feet to the right of this. The photo below this is the swimming hole.
Ok, I'm back downstream now. A cool picture of Honolulu. I have no idea what the name of this is supposed to be. In the 1980s, a NYSDEC Forest Ranger told my father, who was hanging out here at the time, that this place is called Honolulu. We stuck with that.
Thar be Black Chasm Falls!!! This is from October, 2011. The confluence for Black Chasm Creek, whatever it's called, is just upstream from Icebox (not too far downstream from Gray Rock(?) falls / Lexifer's Plunge. If one looks at a map, Black Chasm is the stream coming down from between Plattekill and Indian Head Mountains. Just east of this stream, there is another indent into the slope. I call this "The Flume". Stream size, it is a brook, but it is truly incredible. It's literally a flume carved into the bedrock, rushing down the mountain, with all kinds of crazy twists and turns. Its confluence is directly downstream from Icebox. It's my drinking water source when I camp in there. As for Black Chasm, It really is a black chasm. So amazing. There are no other waterfalls in the stream, but there are plenty of big boulder dams that make little cascades, a picture of which is below.b]
DO THIS BEFORE IT IS CHANGED!!! Google has updated satellite imagery following Hurricane Irene. It just so happened that the time of day was PERFECT for platte clove (besides black chasm... obviously). Every waterfall past Honolulu is visible (Honolulu is below a big mudslide). Icebox is just downstream from the black chasm confluence, is is in a 90 degree curve in the stream, and is kind of a black square. Pretty cool to do this on Google Earth.
