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Topic: Upper Mehoopany Creek and Mythical Falls, Return to the wilds of SGL 57

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jmitch

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Posted on: Jan. 21 2013, 8:58 pm

http://endlessmountains.wordpress.com/2013....l-falls

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/49239558@N04/sets/72157632574972388/

Journeyed deep into SGL 57 this weekend to beautiful Mythical Falls and the Upper Mehoopany Creek with its cascades, deep pools, and spruce forests. Amazing place. It felt so isolated. Lots of wildlife tracks, including bear, snowshoe hare, and coyote. I also hiked a new trail west of Splashdam Pond that revealed great views of the pond, deep hemlock forests, and ruins of a railroad bridge and old stone buildings. Enjoy.

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Posted on: Jan. 22 2013, 11:13 am

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Cool. Bear tracks? What formed those unique ice formations?

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Posted on: Jan. 22 2013, 3:51 pm

Some real beauty there.

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"Straight paths made by man
Are unnatural and full of curses
But a trail is a song."

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"Songs on Winding Trails"
in Chasers of the Sun

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jmitch

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Posted on: Jan. 22 2013, 4:52 pm

Hikingff77-

The foam collectes in the eddy of the creek and gradually freezes as it swirls in the eddy, causing it to form into circles. The ridges around the rim is probably formed when the circles bump into each other. I've seen them before on other creeks. As long as the creek level stays the same, the frozen "lillypads" will generally not escape the eddy and continue to circle around. Sometimes the eddy freezes over and the lillypads are stuck.

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