Saturday, August 13, 2005

Who Said There Was Nothing Left to Discover

How is it that a 40 foot waterfall two miles off the road in a national park in California managed only to be discovered recently?
A couple years ago, Weatherbee was cleaning out a cabinet of old maps when he stumbled across one from the 1960s marked with a note reading "Whiskeytown falls" near Crystal Creek.

"I just decided to go looking for it. But I went in and hiked up and never found anything," Weatherbee said. The map had been more than a mile off.

In the spring of 2003, he was looking at global imaging system maps on his computer when he saw a stretch in the creek that dropped in altitude quickly with a sliver of white leading through it.

"I thought, 'That looks like white water to me,'" he said.
That isn't how Dan'l Boone did it.

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