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Maligne Canyon Falls, Jasper Alberta
This place is incredible, imagine if you will, an extremely deep
limestone canyon with 200 foot sheer cliff walls
that's so narrow in width in places you could jump across it, plus it's
full of ledges, caves, arches and potholes.
When I first walked down the trail and
crossed the foot bridge I looked down and the only thing I could think
of
saying was "holy shit!" It's that deep, you can barely see the bottom
or the crystal clear water running far down below.
Me and some other visitors debated the
depth, some not believing the sign that says it's 50 meters, so some
guys
from Germany dropped small pebbles from the bridge and we timed how
long it took for them to hit the water,
3 to 4 seconds. Good thing they have rails everywhere, if you
fell in you'd be a goner for sure.
Maligne is a French word for "evil" and
the story is that many years ago a French Jesuit priest had difficulty
fording
the river on his horse and so he decided to call it the evil
river. Tripod shot, ISO 100, f/22, 1 second exposure. - Astrocat