Hiking Up Deer Brook Gorge

There was one rock wall and one brook ford after another up this steep route.
Exciting and humbling.
Humid and rain-slick.
This is in the Adirondacks btw, somewhat southeast of Keene Valley.

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Wow; that is cool. That vine is like a natural hand rail.

Nice picture and composition. My only request is how did you manage to talk her into carrying some of the equipment?

Well, its my sister and I was having a bad day.
So she volunteered to take some of it off my back.
A bit of a saint really...
This whole hike was photographically challenging because it was dark in the gorge with bright overcast like spotlights down the middle.
I shot this at high ISO to get some shutter speed and then had to process quite a bit to get the highlights and shadows back into the picture.
Made for some really dramatic pictures when they weren't total misses.