Feather falls is a impressive waterfall close o Oroville north of Sacramento. The fall is about half way on a nice 9 mile loop hike. I visited the fall in Late July, and there is still plenty of water, but I would expect the fall to be even more impressive earlier in the season. There are other supposedly nice water falls close to Feather falls, and I had planned to visit Seven Falls as well, but the road leading there was closed down 4 miles before the fall, so I could not make it, and then it was too late to head for Curtain Falls.
I revisited the Fall in May of 2003 with two of my friends - this time there was even more water in the fall
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| Movie clip with sound from feather fall - requires a WMF player like windows media player |
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Tree at the trail head - we saw many interesting trees on the hike |
There was lots of water in the creeks along the hike |
We encountered this tree top on the hike - the top recently broke off and fell in the middle of the trail |
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Nice view on the way |
View over fall river |
Here I am at the view point. |
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First view of feather fall |
Lots of water this time |
A platform to view the fall exist |
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Carsten at the platform |
Carsten and I with the fall in the background |
Jeff at the platform |
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You can hike to the top of the fall - notice the platform in the back |
You can get very close to the fall |
But there is a cage if you go to look over the top |
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Another view from the top |
A nice rainbow existed at the fall |
A smaller fall we met on the return hike |
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First view of the fall |
As can be seen, the fall is bigger than initially expected |
When I was there, there was this nice rainbow at the fall. |
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Feather fall seen form a distance |
Another view of the fall - notice the rainbow |
You can hike to the top of the fall, but not the bottom. |
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Another view out over the top |
Another view from a distance |
My last view heading back to the parking lot |
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Oroville lake see on the way back |
Interesting tree on the hike |
A nice view from the hike |
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A nice of the Fall river - yes Feather Fall is not no Feather river |
Impressive views on the hiking trail |
I crossed Feather river on the way to Seven falls, and was impressed by the view |
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Another nice view |
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Last updates on December 09, 2010