Winter Wonderland At Kaaterskill Falls

Here's the real deal of my adventure today to the majestic ice palace of Kaaterskill Falls.....

Image was captured from the Observation Deck,... more

by Angelo Marcialis

Title

Winter Wonderland At Kaaterskill Falls

Artist

Angelo Marcialis

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Photograph - Photography

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Here's the real deal of my adventure today to the majestic ice palace of Kaaterskill Falls.....

Image was captured from the Observation Deck, as the trail up to the falls was covered in ice (even though I had the proper winter footwear).

I have become a big chicken (or just wise) as I approach the ripe old age of 60!

Kaaterskill Falls is a two-stage waterfall on Spruce Creek in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County. The two cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making Kaaterskill Falls one of the highest waterfalls in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' tallest waterfalls.

The waterfalls are one of America's oldest tourist attractions, being depicted or described by many books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century. Long before Alexis de Tocqueville's famous essay on America, Kaaterskill Falls was lauded as a place where a traveler could see a wilder image, a sort of primeval Eden. Beginning with Thomas Cole's first visit during 1825, they became a subject for painters of the Hudson River School, setting the wilderness ideal for American landscape painting. The Falls also inspired "Catterskill Falls", a poem by William Cullen Bryant.

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January 16th, 2018