Summertime At Ganoga Falls In Rickett's Glen

by Gene Walls

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Summertime At Ganoga Falls In Rickett's Glen

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Gene Walls

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Ganoga Falls is the tallest of the 22 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park, with a dramatic 94 foot drop. This wonderful PA State Park is located along RT-118 in north eastern Pennsylvania, near the village of Red Rock, PA.

The Ganoga waterfall is about 3 mi. from the Trail Head parking area, on the Falls Trail. Normally, that's nearly half of the way to Lake Jean, which was my original destination. The trail also has a 1,350 foot elevation rise, from Trail Head to Lake Jean. Unfortunately, the last mile of Falls Trail trail was temporarily closed. Much to my surprise, an additional 3.5 miles had to be added on the normal 7.2 mile hike.

There was an interesting event that had happened about a half hour before I snapped this image. A large dead tree on the left side of the very top of the falls had just toppled over, crashing onto a healthy mature tree on the right side of the stream. A big branch was sheared off of the live tree. It came down, splashing into the plunge pool below. The fallen branch can be seen on the right side of my picture. The old dead tree is still wedged against the live tree near the top of the falls.

This photo was captured on Saturday, August 15th, 2009 at 3:19 pm with a Canon EOS 10D camera body fitted with a Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L Zoom lens, at the 22mm focal length. The shutter speed was .3 sec at f/16, ISO 100.

Your comments are always welcome! Constructive criticism is appreciated.

© 2009 Gene Walls

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