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Smith River Falls Near Liard River, British Columbia, Canada |
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Waterfalls are pretty common in British Columbia — in the Coast Mountains there are unnamed cascades a thousand feet high. In the flatter, drier interior, though, they are rarer. This one is just ten miles from the Alaska Highway on a narrow side road. To get to the bottom of the falls, though, one must climb down two flights of wooden stairs, totaling 170 steps. Less fun going back up. The cliff on the far side of the pool, to the right of the waterfall, is composed of a massive bed of low quality coal. Such coal deposits are common in northern British Columbia, covering thousands of square miles. Here and there the quality is high enough to be worth mining, as at Tumbler Ridge, or is associated with natural gas, particularly along the Sikanni River. Next: Warm Water Marsh |