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Set IconFlickr set: Trip to Glen Onoko
January 4th, 2009

Tom Kijak and I set out to hike up along the falls at Glen Onoko, a Pennsylvania state park.

With the temperatures we've been having, it ended up being really beautiful, but at the same time treacherous!

We made in back safely, and got some great pictures along the way.

We saw several interesting people and spoke to some. I snapped a few pictures on the way out of some ice climbers! How cool and unexpected was that!?

The temperature hung around 40 degrees all day with no precipitation and no wind. We couldn't have asked for a better day.

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Mode: JPEG Fine
Exposures: 60, 100, 200, 400, 1600, 2000, 4000
Lenses: Canon kit zoom, Canon 50mm prime
Start of the trail, friendly hikersThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Some random hikers ahead of us at the start of the trail.

tags: winter, woods, hiking, trail, glenonoko
Cliche shotThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

I'd swear I've seen this exact picture before a bazillion times.

tags: winter, waterfall, cliche, fastexposure, glenonoko
A neat little dropoffThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

This is from atop one of the medium-sized waterfalls. We thought it was interesting how it formed almost a perfectly straight edge there at the drop-off.

tags: winter, waterfall, top, glenonoko
Me, hiking...ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Checking my footing. I really wish I had captured the conditions of the trail better. I think I should have traded my work boots for ice skates for most of the journey.

tags: winter, hiking, glenonoko, andrewmoyer
Falls and ice...ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

The stream funneled down to a narrow jet at this point.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko
Ice, everywhere.ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Beautiful displays of cliff ice were not in short supply.

tags: winter, icicles, glenonoko
This is what most of the trail looked like...ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

A taller, narrow waterfall.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko, tomkijak, mistice
This is actually in Pennsylvania...ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Some very interesting ice accumulation built up at the base of this waterfall.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko, tomkijak, mistice
That's a high waterfall...ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Cheesing about half way up the mountain.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko, andrewmoyer
Icicles, waterafl in backThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

A crystalline wall of ice with a tall waterfall in the background.

tags: winter, waterfall, icicles, glenonoko
Tom after finding the lens capThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

It was almost as good as finding buried treasure. Only, it probably just saved me about $1 at the local used camera shop.

tags: winter, glenonoko, tomkijak
Small set of fallsThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Maybe I'm just a sentimental dope when it comes to mother nature, but these falls were really inspirational.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko
Rough terrainThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

This isn't even a good example of what we had to go through... there was so much ice and snow, it really wasn't funny.

tags: winter, glenonoko, tomkijak
Tom recovering the lens cap, part 2ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

After Tom recovered my lens cap from the water miraculously, he managed to find it again when it popped off later randomly. I need to figure out a solution to my lens cap clumsiness.

tags: winter, glenonoko, tomkijak
Tom behind the falls 3ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

The ledge of this waterfall had enough of an overhang, and the water was at high enough velocity, that we could walk under it. I can't wait to go back there in summer with my swimsuit.

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko, tomkijak
Tom behind the falls 1ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

It doesn't look like big globs of water to the naked eye, but my camera shows what's actually happening. Science, huh...

tags: winter, waterfall, glenonoko, tomkijak
Waterfall and Ice 3ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Tom Kijak with a dramatic backdrop.

tags: winter, glenonoko, tomkijak
Waterfall and Ice 1ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

Great scenery.

tags: winter, glenonoko, andrewmoyer
On the other side of the cameraThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

It's me again...

tags: winter, glenonoko, andrewmoyer
Climbers 1ThumbnailUploaded: 1/4/09

On the hike down, we came across some random ice climbers. If this is you, send me a message!

tags: winter, iceclimbing, glenonoko, iceclimbers
 
See more pictures in the set at Flickr...