(All pictures in this blog were taken with my new Nikon D90 camera, and they all get bigger if you click on them; I'd recommend this as they look much better larger)

If you ever decide to take a walk down and up a waterfall in the middle of a long patch of freezing cold weather, you should be prepared for the path to look not entirely dissimilar to this:

devil_steps

To call it treacherous would be an understatement. There were sections where both my ungloved hands had a death-grip on the icy cold metal railing and I still didn’t feel safe. It was well worth it though. This is a view facing the waterfall on the way down:

devils_platform

The water was roaring down as usual, but the immediately surrounding rocks were thickly encased in peculiarly shaped icy outcrops (pics lower down). The rocks down the middle were covered in sheets of ice. On the right you can see one of the viewing platforms. At the very bottom is a bridge over this stream:

devil_bridge

The icicles you can see on the left are 3-4 feet long. Here is Helen stood under several slightly shorter ones:

devil_helen

The above picture of Helen was taken just off the viewing platform in the 2nd picture. This is what you see if you look directly down from that platform:

devil_down

At the bottom is the most peculiar looking icy wasteland, with the water flowing through the middle and icy shapes all around:

devil_icy_waste

This is a close-up of a section from the picture above:

devil_icy_waste2

This one is where the water finally splashes down:

devil_splash

You can see the peculiar ice shapes I mentioned above. Here is the same thing from a slightly different angle:

devil_splash2

And finally, this one shows the torrent of water with it’s icy surround:

devils_cascade