Videos of the Mizunashi Gorge

And here are the videos that provide a better context and the sensation of sound to the blog experience.  I took a lot of videos of waterfalls for my father, who's an avid waterfall-catcher...on film.

Here is some evidence of last winter's landslide.

There were many small waterfalls like this one along our hike.

Here's a dramatic waterfall on the mountainside.

Last Friday, the water was shooting up a bit.

Here is a medium-sized waterfall that was big enough to supply some cool air as we hiked past it.

Another small waterfall

Here the rapids look like glacial ice melt.

This is the large waterfall that supplied the very comfortable cool breeze.

This is where that big waterfall met the icy blue water of the gorge.

Behind the greenery is a man-made waterfall.

Yes, this is snow.

But that is someone else's truck with a key left inside.

Take another look at the waterfall and the snow.

Here is the pile of packed snow as solid as ice stacked up next to my colleagues.

We were lucky that what remained of the arch did not fall on us.

Yes, that's evaporating mist coming out from under the snow.

It's difficult to capture the size of the mountain in my little tiny camera.

After seeing the great snow bridge, we turned around to take another look at what used to be a smaller snow bridge.

Near the end of our walk, we followed a trail down to the river gorge.

There's another waterfall from the other side of the gorge making its way to the river.

Two of our group took the plunge while I was filming this.

To maintain their privacy, I filmed in the opposite direction.

Staring at the rapids can sometimes be quite mesmerizing.