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Oh man, where to start? This was “the story” from this trip; I saw so many very cool waterfalls, but this one, this one was interesting to find. My only directions for this location were that you turned down this particular forestry\/logging road, and then “when the road forks, take the right side; the left side is VERY muddy after it rains. Once you cross the bridge, there is a pull over on the right side…” Well, it had just rained, so as I started down the glorified two-tracker, I watched for the fork in the road.<\/span><\/p>\n As I drove along it got muddier and muddier, but my Traverse has all wheel drive, so I wasn’t too concerned. Then I crested a hill and there was a small pool of muddy water at the bottom. Since there were tire tracks through it already, I assumed that there wasn’t anything dangerous in the water and I proceeded down the hill, through the mud, and then up the hill. As I crested the other side, there was another depression with more mud but just a little bit wider with more mud. Over the next 3 or 4 hills, each mud hole was a bit deeper and a bit wider.<\/span><\/p>\n As I crossed the 6th or 7th hill, the valley below was less of a small pool or muddy water, and almost a pond. It was at this moment that it occurred to me; not only have I travelled farther then the guide indicated, but now I have to turn around and head back through all of those increasingly deep mud puddles that I just made ruts in. Using my genius intellect, I assumed that the best way to avoid being stuck was to go as fast as possible through the puddles. There was one puddle where I felt the rear wheels gripping, but not the front wheels; but in each mud puddle, the Traverse came through.<\/span><\/p>\n So how did I find the waterfall? As I drove back on the two-track, I saw the “bridge” … a series of railroad ties laid across the road that I’d missed because I was looking for the fork in the road first.<\/span><\/p>\n And yes, my wonderful white Traverse was a bit of a mess for the remainder of the trip. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n a muddy car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,52,675],"tags":[6946,7867,7363,296,163,649,7418,363,6788,7417,832,2783,7359,92,7350,7352,221,138,840,7416,2644,337,72,7355,80,376,3617,2679,6576],"class_list":["post-28747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-sunsets","category-water-fire","category-writing","tag-6946","tag-2023-waterfall-trip-review","tag-23-10-03","tag-creek","tag-fall","tag-fall-colors","tag-formations","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-14-pro-max","tag-iron-county-wi","tag-leaves","tag-long-exposure","tag-oct23","tag-october","tag-october-waterfalls","tag-october-waterfalls-2023","tag-river","tag-rocks","tag-roots","tag-rouse-falls","tag-stones","tag-stream","tag-sunlight","tag-upwis-oct23","tag-water","tag-waterfall","tag-waterfalls","tag-wisconsin-waterfall","tag-wisconsin-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28783,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions\/28783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"CB0515\"](\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/CB0515.jpg\")
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