BGuthrie Photos: ID -- Twin Falls

ID -- Twin Falls:

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Description of Pictures: Frankly, I really hadn't expected to see anything in Twin Falls other than a Costco. But as I drove over a bridge, I saw the gorge of the Snake River and was suddenly impressed. Steep cliffs were on either side of a beautiful valley. The next morning, I went down to Centennial Park and passed a waterfall. Then I drove to the overlook and saw a sign announcing that this was where Evel Knieval tried a famous rocket-powered sky-cycle jump across the Snake River Canyon. On September 8 1874 (and, yes, there were two plaques commemorating this event), he launched at a point where the canyon was 1700-feet-wide and 500-feet-deep. A malfunction caused his chute to open too quickly and he landed unharmed in the gorge itself. You can still see his earthen ramp in the distance. While walking over to get a better picture of the ramp, I saw people jumping off the bridge into the canyon. They were parachutists. This is apparently the only bridge in the country where you can regularly jump so a dedicated group of idiots do. I watched maybe a dozen jump and land, only to climb back up, repack their chutes and do it again. I was impressed!

While the major water fall shown in spectacular, the city-promoted Shoshone Falls were a major disappointment. The pictures show these fabulous falls that they marker as "The Niagara of the West". When you see them, though, they're just a trickle of water. They acknowledge that the falls haven't done much of anything since 1997 due to droughts and sucking out so much water for agriculture. All of the literature, however, shows the falls in 1997. Fortunately, there wasn't anyone there to collect the $3 fee to see the "falls" so it wasn't too much of a rip off but it was still very disappointing.

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1. 2FALL_030525_004_STITCH.JPG: This wonderful waterfall was located just off the road which took me into the valley.
2. 2FALL_030525_122.JPG: In the distance, you can see the earthen ramp that Evel Knievel used for his jump.
3. 2FALL_030525_132.JPG: This is one of the boats that picks up parachutists for a fee
4. 2FALL_030525_142.JPG: The first time I realized people were parachuting from the bridge was when I was taking a picture of a bridge and thought I saw a big bird diving by it. Nope, parachutists. I saw maybe a dozen jumpers in the hour I was there. Here's a three-sequence photo of a jumper. Pausing on the bridge before jumping, the jump itself, and then after the parachute opens.
5. 2FALL_030525_144.JPG: You can see the guy by the bridge as he falls
6. 2FALL_030525_146.JPG: The same guy after he's fallen and his chute has opened. The trip down from the bridge is pretty quick. The trip up, however, is either a slow mountain-climb up the slopes or else being picked up a by a boat on the river and, for a fee, being taken back to the park where I took the pictures of the valley before.
7. 2FALL_030525_153.JPG: Another guy falling. His buddy watches him from atop the bridge.
8. 2FALL_030525_156.JPG: Here's the jumper with one of the pick-up boats. Most of the jumpers did not avail themselves to the boat and climbed up the slopes on their own. That process took about 20 minutes.
9. 2FALL_030525_180.JPG: The trickle in the center of the photo is the Shoshone Falls which some years is supposedly impressive. However, due to drought, continuous demand for water for agricultural crops and people, and rerouting of water for power-generating purposes, most of the water has been sucked out of the falls. They had a beautiful display in 1997 but nothing since. You can imagine how disappointed I was to see this after having been promised beautiful falls.
10. 2FALL_030525_192.JPG: Bruce Guthrie in Twin Falls, Idaho
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Wikipedia Description: Twin Falls, Idaho
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Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. The population was 34,469 at the 2000 census; a 2006 estimate found 40,380 people.

Twin Falls is the largest city of Idaho's Magic Valley region and the seventh largest in the state. As the largest city in a 100-mile (166-kilometer) radius, Twin Falls serves as a regional commercial center for both south-central Idaho and northeastern Nevada.

Twin Falls is the principal city of the Twin Falls, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area - the state's largest - which officially includes Jerome and Twin Falls Counties. The resort community of Jackpot, Nevada, in Elko County is unofficially considered part of the greater Twin Falls area.

History:

Humans may have been present in the Twin Falls area as long as 14,500 years ago. Excavations at Wilson Butte Cave near Twin Falls in 1959 revealed evidence of human activity, including arrowheads, that rank among the oldest dated artifacts in North America . Later native American tribes predominant the area included the Northern Shoshone and Bannock.

The first people of European ancestry to visit the Twin Falls area are believed to be members of a group led by Wilson Price Hunt, which attempted to blaze an all-water trail westward from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812. Hunt's expedition met with disaster when much of his expedition was destroyed and one man was killed in rapids on the Snake River known as Caldron Linn near present-day Murtaugh. Hunt and the surviving members of his expedition completed the journey to Astoria by land.

In 1812 and 1813, Robert Stuart successfully led an overland expedition eastward from Astoria to St. Louis which passed through the Twin Falls area. Stuart's route formed the basis of what became the Oregon Trail. Some 150 years later, Robert Stuart Junior High School in Twin Falls was named in his honor.

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