Waterfall Photos Near Loch Katrine

I was out exploring an area for potential hiking opportunities and ended up getting very, very lost. Check this out (red = my hike, green = the actual trail):

Since I didn't think I was going to hike, I only brought a fairly minimalist description, which I typed in from a physical book. This is the description that I brought with me:

You can see that I did continue straight at a large, hairpin turn in the logging road, and, according to my GPS, I was around the 2.9 mile mark. The "trail" also did enter the forest, and it did drop a little.

Turns out, that was the turn-before-the-turn for me to go straight. So I ended up on the west side of the ridge, hopelessly not anywhere near the lake. Also: following what in hindsight isn't a trail at all, but since it was under ~4 feet of snow, I couldn't really tell.

And of course there was no one around to ask.

There were tracks of a single deer, in the snow, which was not all that helpful.

(And I was in sneakers, which complicated things a bit)

And in hindsight, the trail was hopelessly steep in parts. You can get a sense of this from the map. I was walking where the steep slope met the snowline, to keep from stepping waist-deep in snow.

Anyways...

In looking at the map, you can see where the red line touches the outlet creek from the lake. That's where I ventured into the trees to discover this beautiful waterfall:

There are four photos. Clickable on desktop for high resolution versions.

This was a nice surprise, in an area that's otherwise difficult to abide in (lots of clearcutting / not a whole lot of re-planting).

I also grabbed a couple of short videos:

• One is 81MB and is 24 seconds long.
• The other is 243MB and is just over 1 minute long.

(they should download when you click the link)