We were trying to figure out how many times we've been to Silver Falls. Our best estimate is around ten times. This was the first time that I didn't lug a tripod around with me. Since it was sunny, I figured that I wouldn't be using it. I actually did get some surprisingly not-terribly-blurry pictures at up to .8 second exposures. But with the sunlight on portions of the waterfalls, I wasn't exactly excited about sharing those.

On a sunny, comfortable day there were a lot of people on the trail. We've come to SFSP so many times during the winter that we've gotten spoiled. We're used to the place being all but deserted. But we hike slow, and the trails weren't crowded at all by the late afternoon.

I almost chose a barrier closing the trail behind Middle North Falls as today's picture. I can't believe that they keep closing off that trail spur. It's not dangerous. Much worse is the dangerous situation of the yahoo I saw leaning out over the brink of South Falls holding his camera out as far as he could reach. Luckily he lived to see another day. Well as far as I know. He may have been unlucky doing something equally stupid later in the day.