DRB
08-12-2005, 07:57 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/secret.waterfall.ap/index.html
The 92-year-old used to earn a meager living mining the creeks that meander through the deeply wooded hills. He has slogged through the brush and hiked overgrown logging roads, hunting deer and gathering wood for his homemade fiddles.
But McDermott says he's never laid eyes on the nearly 400-foot waterfall that park officials recently discovered in a remote corner of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 43,000 acres of wilderness in northern California.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/08/12/secret.waterfall.ap/story.vert.falls.jpg
The 92-year-old used to earn a meager living mining the creeks that meander through the deeply wooded hills. He has slogged through the brush and hiked overgrown logging roads, hunting deer and gathering wood for his homemade fiddles.
But McDermott says he's never laid eyes on the nearly 400-foot waterfall that park officials recently discovered in a remote corner of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 43,000 acres of wilderness in northern California.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/08/12/secret.waterfall.ap/story.vert.falls.jpg