La Sagrada Familia

Yes, again. We made it this time, though. We were better prepared, and there was less snow this time. Still, I singlehandedly turned it into Grand Adventure when the map (which I had carefully stashed in a side-pocket of my pack*) fell out of my pack along the way. We discovered the map's absence when we decided we were lost. Yay!

Obviously we found our way again (you can't get too lost when you know that the point at which you left the main trail was the point at which you entered the riverbed...), but it was still a shock. We even found our destination- Ramona Falls- and it was -well- pretty stunning. I tried to get pictures of it, but to be honest, I'm not sure how. The water falls from about 100' up, cascading down a rock wall to the floor of an old pine (fir?) forest that resembles nothing more than the inside of a cathedral, with the trees being the columns and the waterfall being the stained glass behind the altar. Seriously: How do you not overexpose the light part, while still capturing some detail in the foreground?

On this day in 1178, five monks from Canterbury reported having seen something explode on the moon.
In 1852, Antonio Gaudi was born.
In 1977, the discovery of three mysterious discs was reported. They were exactly 1.4 metres in diameter, 46cm thick at the centre and perfectly circular, and were found in an open-cast coal mine at Leigh Creek, South Australia. Michael Lowrie, an Adelaide marine expert, said: 'I've never seen anything like these objects. They appear to be rusty on the outer casing and are believed to be millions of years old. One thing is certain, they are not fossilised shells.'

Lots of interesting UFO activity over SW England lately. More info here.