Old Albatross

This site is dedicated to waterfalls, mountains, an old aviators memories, with lots of poetic liberties, some just plain made up, and interesting places to visit.

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Falls and Cascdes1930 viewsThe only difficult part of the trail to this point is gong through the crack in a huge boulder, down a little bit of a slide, hanging from a laurel bush and dropping to the floor of the small canyon. Piece of Cake! I did it and I am older than dirt.
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Dressed up Abram's Falls1929 viewsWith a fairly good camera, polarizing filter, haze filter and good cloud cover we dressed up Abram's Falls.

Don't expect to see this with the naked eye, it's about 1.3 seconds of exposure.

Maybe the most dangerous falls I have been to. If it's wet the trail and overhang could become very slippery.
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On High1929 viewsDon't let the description of 50 ft fool you. From this point it is abut 150 ft to the river level below but, the trail down in excellent.

With a little exploring and milling around plan on a four mile hike.
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Grizzly1928 viewsThe bear, we were told it was a young Grizzly. was on Mt. Norquay above Banff, Alberta, Canada

It was eating grass right outside the car window. Never took the car out of gear. :)
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Little Stony Middle-21928 views
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Reedey Creek 21928 views
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Xray Falls1928 viewsThis 80' falls is not listed but, located in DuPont Forest.

Our goal is to let no falls go un-named so we named it Xray Falls.

Thanks E.I. DuPont.
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Mile marker 5.8 1927 viewsEnd of the trail at mile marker 5.8, punctuated by an oncoming train. This is where the spur from Coeburn, Va. connected to the Clinchfield, now the CSX. railroad.
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