Oct 3
Bear River, Swan Lake
Now I can check off the second waterfall in Björnån, having seen the first one last week. I was really curious to get there because in the satellite picture and on some maps it seemed like there was a bridge over the river, although it was nowhere marked as such. And indeed, a bridge it was – but not the kind I’d want to walk over! The planks were rotten and many were missing, so I settled to photographing it instead.
They used to do log driving on this river and it was very evident here, for example in the picture you can see the stone wall that guides the logs down the waterfall. We also found some duckboards that were barely visible from under the lichens and mosses, and an half-fallen bench used by log drivers while on watch to monitor the logs and ready to jump to action in case a log jam was forming. These constructions date back to the early 20th century and probably haven’t been used in at least half a century when log driving ended at Björnån.
Oh and the waterfall itself, it wasn’t actually half as interesting as the one last week. But I didn’t mind, all this other stuff we found made me feel like a historian, or an archaeologist, even!
Since the raining/snowing that they had forecast for today hadn’t started yet, we drove to Svansjöbäcken and followed it down until it levelled off. Somewhere around half way down the brook changes nature, from the cliffs upstream to rocks downstream. In the rocky parts the water almost disappears, so it will only be interesting when there’s more water so it will fall over the rocks. It will also be interesting to see the cliffs when there’s more water, although not too much – the cliffs are only attractive as long as they are visible!
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Really nice looking! And you did not suffer from rain, so not bad at all. Not so great day for me to still have a bit flue…
Svansjöbäcken will be photogenic for many weekends to come yet… it’s surrounded by sparse pine forest, so the autumn colours don’t really come to play, other than the grass that’s lining the water. So you can have a chance at it when you recover from your flu, but I would recommend a day when the cliffs are dry. Wet cliffs will be somewhat… hazardous.
Just needs to rain a little bit first… there really isn’t much water at the moment, barely enough to keep the flow going.
Oh, what a lovely view you have on the first picture! Well done with the shooting -that’s usually the last thing to worry when checking your blog
-Is it hard to be such a nitpicker and publish only awesome or great pictures 
Wow, thanks!
And I was thinking that the picture was ok… not good or bad… I was sure that the bland sky would evoke some nitpicking. 