#upper falls

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Floating down river Yosemite National Park, May 2025

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The power vibrated through me as I stood with my eyes closed at the top of the Upper Falls in Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon. I had arrived just before dark, the overlook silent except for the roar of the river. No muffled voices, no footsteps—just me and the thunder of water. It was a little eerie, but in that solitude I felt the energy rising in the mist, charged with breaking ions, washing over me.

It was as if the falls whispered to my soul: “Here is my life energy, making you whole, complete, one with me.”

When I opened my eyes, I looked over the edge to see the Yellowstone River funneling downward—plunging in a rush of pure white into the deep, hidden basin below. Its magnitude was overwhelming. To witness all that water, endlessly carving its way through stone into an unseen landscape, was to glimpse the power of time itself written in water and rock.

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A light snow at the Upper Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, YNP

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, November 2021

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Upper Falls, Tat Kuang Si, Laos

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Tahquamenon Falls, Upper Peninsula of Michigan

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Upper Falls of The Yellowstone River

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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After we went through 18 small towns in Wyoming, taking photographs, doing a little painting and a lot of talking to people in town, we had a few of our remaining days in the National Parks. This is the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River.