Hiking Mineral King – Three Falls Below the Gate

About 1-1/2 miles below the end of the Mineral King Road, you can see a roaring section of falls over the edge, waaay down there. Trail Guy and I went exploring, following a friend’s vague instructions: “I just drop off those rocks below my cabin”. Oh yeah? I followed Trail Guy and trusted him to get me there and back in one piece. He did not fail.

Umm, yeah, we’ll just drop off this rock.
Hey Trail Guy, where is a trail??
A big snow avalanche came through here. The tall tree is missing branches very high up. The lower shelf is dirt-covered snow.
I came all this way to have a dead tree in my view??
Very powerful water – cool mist, scary edge, thundering roar.
Can you see the snow shelf here?

There were some flowers to take the edge off.

Some variety of Bro-dee-uh (spelled brodeaia or some such reckless combo of vowels)

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