roads i had first drove down to visit big falls. we were getting close.
i did point out one interesting thing about this section of river. there was a wall of ice packed on both sides of the water, looking as if it had been shoved up onto the banks. we had missed a recent and massive melt. the over full river must have pushed chunks of ice and snow to form a false bank around itself. probably for the best - i'm not sure how we would have made it up this river if there had been five times as much water flowing down it.
eventually the sound of a large 