Stubb's Falls, Arrowhead Provincial Park

A few miles from where we were staying is Arrowhead Provincial Park, the favoured destination for cross-country skiing, with a range of excellent, track-set trails.  I couldn't ski, but I could snowshoe.  So two of us took the trail to Stubb's Falls, which I had never seen before.

 The trails at Arrowhead are very well organized, with both to totally separate snowshoe and ski trails and different levels of difficulty for skiers.

We were there on a Tuesday, and had the trails to ourselves, but obviously it got a lot of use on weekends.  The trail was like a snowshoe highway, wide enough to walk four abreast!

It was some distance down the trail to the falls, then down some stairs and across a footbridge just upstream.  From here you could see the water starting to plunge over the rocky ledge of the falls.

We worked our way around and down to get as close as was safe.  Much of the actual falls seemed to be frozen over, and we may have been standing on a large ice platform, so we're probably only seeing a small portion of the water.

Looking downstream there was a lot more falling water, but no safe way down, so we stuck to the view from the top.  This is a place to return in one of the other seasons!

Looking back upstream you get a sense of the volume of water headed for the falls, and you can see the footbridge across the creek that we had to take.  Enjoyed the hike to the falls a lot, and headed back on the other side of the creek to meet the others at the car.