"Sideways Falls" ("Big Bend Falls")

About “Sideways Falls” (“Big Bend Falls”)

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I’m putting “Sideways Falls” or “Big Bend Falls” in quotes because I believe that these are informal names for this fairly conspicuous waterfall that we spotted from the Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93A). I borrowed these names from Bryan Swan’s Pacific Northwest waterfall survey as well as Leon Turnbull’s Waterfalls West, respectively. I suppose giving it these names would sound a lot better than “that waterfall seen from a pullout at a big bend in Hwy 93” or something like that.

In any case, viewing this waterfall was pretty much an exercise in pinpointing its whereabouts on our GPS and then following the GPS‘ instructions until we noticed the falls. At that point, it was a cinch to just see it from afar. Of course, photographing it meant we needed a telephoto lens given how far away the falls was. Without the powerful zoom, the falls would’ve looked puny in our photographs.

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