Tahquamenon Falls in the Winter

I know that by the time this gets published, most of the snow in these pictures will have melted.

I took them during the first week of March.

Remember early last fall, when I went and met with Cathy, from YOOPER YARNS near Newberry, Michigan?

Remember how we hiked into beautiful Tahquamenon Falls and got some autumn pictures?

Well, it was always my intention to try to get back to the falls and capture some winter photos of the falls, because I knew it would be spectacular.

I had hoped for a little more ice at the falls, but this winter, for some reason, we had abnormally mild temperatures and less snow and ice than usual.

But, nonetheless, the falls were still awesome in the winter scene.

We were lucky.

Although the trails still had plenty of snow on them, it was a gorgeous, sunny day in the high 40'sF and the snowmobiles had packed down the trail enough that we did not need snowshoes to hike in.

We actually got kind of hot hiking in all our winter gear.

And we didn't see another soul during the entire walk in and out.

All that beauty and no one there!

Here are the stairs down to one of the falls lookouts:

See? Not even any snow on the stairs!  (Good thing, I probably would've slipped down all of them if they had been icy!)

Looking across the falls to the far side, there was mist and plenty of wonderful rock wall icicles!:

You know me, I'm a pushover for icicles. They make me weak in the knees:

I loved the mix of the rushing falls right next to this gigantic icicle and snow:

Sooo pretty:

I love the forces of nature, no matter what the season:

The day was perfect, and we had it all to ourselves:

Fabulous force!:

The gorge with ice next to the river and close to the falls:

Some information on the falls and river and a nice lookout spot:

The falls, pouring right into the river of snow!:

A view from farther down the river:

A gorgeous day and gorgeous falls:

We strolled back to the car in the winter sunshine, happy to have shared this wonderful scenery that Mother Nature had provided to us.

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