Green, we did not make it up that far -- even an ordinary 45 degree slope, when covered in soft slush with ice underneath, becomes a little too tricky for us. We are very far from mountaineers -- is there such a word as "hill-eers?" There are climbers, and then there are sloggers. That's us.
And Mike and Carole, I do carry a light tripod for the blurry waterfall shots. Very easy to deploy. I just crank the camera's f-stop to a high setting, which enables me to use a slow lens speed. The only problem with a light tripod is that a gust of wind can make it wiggle or even topple it -- that is what wrecked my last camera. Lesson painfully learned -- in any sort of wind, now I attach a weight to the middle of the tripod to stabilize it.
