Many Faces

Have you ever seen locations differently in varying light? One day while walking home from the depths of the Ram Canyon at dusk, I stopped for a breather and looked around. I can close my eyes and recite every single riffle and run of the Ram from the Forestry Trunk Road to the confluence with the N Ram, and on this evening I knew exactly where I was of course. However, I saw something I'd never seen before. Typically, I walk past this cliff wall at about 10 am and the sun usually beats down on its shale face. It's a craggy face but I'd never thought it any kind of special. It's the last cliff wall of the open canyon on the Ram before the canyon narrows at a key hole corner where Small Falls kick off the Triple Falls - 3 sets of pretty impressive waterfalls in about 2km of river.

As I looked at the cliff face that marks the entrance to this chasm of rock and whitewater, I noticed about 20 faces sternly looking down at the river embedded in the cliff face. In the photo, to me anyway, it looks like foreheads, eye sockets, noses, and chins. 20+ faces giving a stern warning. It was pretty neat to see, and appropriate. So, I now call that cliff face "Many Faces". If you see it, you're about to really get into the rougher canyon section on the Ram.