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  • Breaking the cold record

    Breaking the cold record

    So, it’s official. February 2015 was not only record-breakingly cold… it was the coldest month in Toronto in recorded history. I feel like we all deserve T-shirts to commemorate this, though it hardly seems worth celebrating. A few weekends ago it was actually minus 40, that strange zone where both Fahrenheit and Celsius will say the…

  • Darnley Cascade, Boher’s Falls and the Old Mill

    Darnley Cascade, Boher’s Falls and the Old Mill

    While Webster’s Falls were definitely the most spectacular of the day, we did do a bit of sleuthing around some of the other falls close by, starting with Boher’s Falls, and working out way out to the ruins of the old paper mill. Tito and I are contemplating a new pet project – documenting each…

  • The Upside to a Deep Freeze

    The Upside to a Deep Freeze

    The weather in Toronto has been a deep freeze this week, with temperatures dropping as low as -27oc (-16.6 oF) with the windchill. Of course, there’s got to be a plus side to such chilly conditions, right? Accordingly, Tito and I drove off to the Hamilton area to do a little winter waterfall hunting. For those…

  • Waterfall Day on the Historic US 30

    On the second full day that we had in Oregon, Tito and I spent the day waterfall hunting along the Historic US 30.  That highway, impressively, actually had too many waterfalls for us to visit in only one go, so we had to pick and choose a bit. This is Latourell falls, a fairly nondescript…

  • What are Saturday nights for?

    Last Saturday night we met up with our friends Johnathan and Beverly. What do people do on a warm Saturday, with an almost full moon, at midnight? We load up on camera gear, flashlights and Dairy Queen, and go stomping about in the woods looking for waterfalls, that’s what. This is the entryway to Tews…

  • Balls Falls Conservation Area

    I’ve got a new toy :) It’s the Lee Filter Big Stopper, and it deserves it’s own post. We took it out to wine country yesterday to test-drive it – it really shines when used with running water and where better to go than the Escarpment, which boasts more waterfalls than anywhere else in the…

  • Hamilton – A Juxtaposition. Photo Study 2.

    Hamilton, or ‘The Hammer’ as most of us know it, is a great study in opposites. On one hand it has massive steel mills right on the harbour, belching smoke and open flame, black with soot and looking very blade runner, or as one commenter put it, “hot dirty and apocalyptic”. On the other it…