Rainy Mountain Loop Sampler

Decided to go play in the slush today, and give a foriegn friend a tour of my favorite hiking area. Conditions weren't even that bad, road-wise, but it was just raining, all day. My main goal was to scout the trailheads on the Sloan Creek Road, two of which I found, but eventually the snow got too deep for my low car, so I didn't find the other one I wanted to. However, my other goal was to find and photograph the North Fork falls, on the Sauk River, which was also accomplished. Decided there was still plenty of daylight, so we hit big 4 ice caves on the way there, and boulder river on the way out.

I think this is the first (of few) times I've been here and there has actually been a decent sized cave.


Yes, this was the weather the entire day, but incessent rain and clouds is the price we pay for such reasonable, non-extreme weather.


Yes, I drove a Swede around in the snow in my Volvo.






Found the North Fork Falls, which I had heard about but never got around to seeing.


One more, a slightly longer exposure.


Then, hit up boulder river on the way back into town.




These are tough to photograph in an interesting way, there aren't many angles you can get, especially when the river below is basically flooding.


But I try regardless.