Great Big Icicles

The last bitter cold day of the year, a bunch of photographers from the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society met at Viaduct Park in Bedford. At 7:30 am. 19 degrees. Crazy? Possibly. Fun? Definitely! There were more icicles on and around the Great Falls of Tinker's Creek than I've ever seen before and the falls itself was nearly frozen solid.

I braved the short scramble down the ravine to the base of the falls to take these. In prior years, I was too chicken to go to the stream bed, god knows what possessed me this time. A little icy, but not a bad climb down or back. There were some snow covered holes in the rocks, though - one of the guys broke through and had to be pulled out.

This is a black and white pano of of the main falls and a little side falls on the far right. See the cracked snow in the left foreground? Don't walk on that. The pool in front of the falls is quite deep and it's hard to tell if what's under the snow is stable rock or thin ice.

Here's a close up of the waterfall on the left. 

Two versions of a small falls upstream of Great Falls. I think I like the color version better.

Side falls next to Great Falls. Looks like an angel or maybe a headless warlock, doesn't it? The blue icicles are cleaner water, the green, brown, and tan ones are colored by various minerals and dirt as the source water flowed through dirt and rocks.

We stopped for breakfast after, some good hot coffee and gear talk. There might be a Tamron 150 - 600 in my future...