Spreading Out

[JimFox]

This is a top down view of the flow of the Little Colorado before it's starts tumbling down Grand Falls.

I can imagine with a monsoon flow this whole section is just totally covered. It was really cool to see how it spreads out.

Taken with the DJI Mini 2 drone.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Neat viewpoint for this place. This must look amazing during a full flow.

 

[TimMc]

The colors are just great. Is this area now the land of a hundred waterfalls?

 

[JimFox]

Neat viewpoint for this place. This must look amazing during a full flow.

I am curious how it will look during full flow. I wonder if all of the brush and channels just disappear? Now that I have been there, I plan on going back.

One thing that was interesting I found was that this reminded me a lot of Palouse Falls in how the water drops down there is a huge eroded area and then the water flows down a channel. The actually waterfall is totally different of course, but it's weird, the basin (or whatever you call it) looks totally the same. I guess the same work of erosion.

 

[JimFox]

The colors are just great. Is this area now the land of a hundred waterfalls?

Thanks so much Tim. Not quite a hundred, but there were maybe 6 different waterfalls pouring off that huge wide ledge where it pours off.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Neat view Jim, I don't think I have ever seen the little Colorado River.

 

[Jeffrey]

Nice aerial image! Did you drive that road that crosses it?

 

[JimFox]

Neat view Jim, I don't think I have ever seen the little Colorado River.

Thanks Ben!

 

[JimFox]

Nice aerial image! Did you drive that road that crosses it?

I appreciate that Jeffrey. No, I didn't drive it. I didn't even realize it was a road until I looked at my images later. As I drove up to the parking area for the falls, I had seen a spur road to the right and a mini-van driving along that road and wondered where it went. From the main road, the spur went up a slight incline so I couldn't see as I drove in that it would offer that option. I also had gotten there only an hour before sunset, so by the time I was done video'ing and photographing on the south side, it was dark. Next time I will try to get there earlier as I would also like to hike down to the river it self and shoot from down below.

 

[BlackRockArt]

This is a top down view of the flow of the Little Colorado before it's starts tumbling down Grand Falls.

I can imagine with a monsoon flow this whole section is just totally covered. It was really cool to see how it spreads out.

Taken with the DJI Mini 2 drone.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Jim, beautiful lighting, it's quite a striking vew to see the mighty river power to carve through the land.

Oliver