This shot is of (as you might expect) the Fish Creek Falls, just outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado:
It’s easy to get to the falls from town — drive about 7 miles (if memory serves), hike under a mile on a paved trail, and you’re there. As a result, the falls and their trailhead are normally swamped with tourists. We were lucky — when we visited, it had been raining all weekend. The rain seemed to be a very effective tourist repellant.
Meanwhile, the rain also added to the creek’s flow both directly (via drainage into the creek) and indirectly (by accelerating the already fast-paced snow melt). I took this shot with my camera just a few inches above the decking on the bridge above the creek (you can see some of the bridge’s structure on the right side of the frame) — so, at most 2 or 3 feet above the water rushing underneath us. I’ve been told that these falls are normally an impressive sight, but the higher-than-normal water flow certainly didn’t hurt.
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