The Trail of Ten Falls in Silver Falls State Park has the densest concentration of large waterfalls in North America. In any other state, this would be a National Park.

Hiking time: 6 hours, 56 minutes, and 09 seconds. Started at North Falls, at 9:30 AM made the 0.2 mile trek up to Upper North Falls, reversed course and began the long trek through 10 falls to South Falls. Spent about an hour exploring and photographing the awesome and thundering North Falls. The falls were very full, due to a week of steady rain.

Milestones: 4 hours, 42 minutes, and 23 seconds from trailhead to lunch just before arriving at South Falls. 20 minutes, 23.09 seconds for lunch. 29 minutes, 19.32 seconds exploring around South Falls, 1 hour, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds along the Rim Trail back to car at 4:15 PM. Shortly after getting onto rim trail you pass through a grove of enormous, old growth Douglas Firs 7 feet in diameter and even larger.

At Middle North Falls, I ran into a guy who claimed to have visited The Silver Falls Trail of Ten Falls every Wednesday for the past ten years, over 500 times! Is he in a rut, or has he discovered something profound about being in this "rut"? Well, I've listened to Mahler symphonies and various J.S. Bach works hundreds of times, but hundreds of other works as well. The experience he gets each time might be the same as he's experienced before, but it's so intense he just wants to repeat it over and over again, because it's so wonderful his brain can't remember it once he leaves, and must come back in order to experience it again. Freud's "Compulsion to Repeat." Perhaps this is never why we'll get tired from the eternity of ecstasy in Heaven.

I had several short chats with other people along the trail, and we all marveled at the beauty we were seeing and the volume of water in the falls, due to the previous 7 days of more or less steady rain.

Took 258 photos of which 144 made the cut. All photos taken on a tripod.