In the fall the water level only gets up to about 3.5′ or so and the areas that have a lot of drag (except for at the fall itself) are too shallow to be a problem.

I really, really appreciate the warning though, because there are a couple of falls that I wanted to explore where that would definitely be a problem. Though I imagine that the DNR folks would also have mentioned it and I always discuss my adventures with them. But that isn’t certain and I honestly wouldn’t have thought much of it, though it makes sense now that you mention it.

I recommend a wet suit.

I have hiked above that waterfall several times, as it is one of my favorite hikes. People (including myself) try to get a look at that fall from above all the time, but it is hard to see, as you need to get close to the edge of a rather nasty, roughly 100′ drop. On one occasion, I fortuitously came along when a guy had managed to get himself stuck on wet grass (it was raining) and had been desperately holding onto a rather too small tree branch for more than an hour. I made a nasty mess of my jacket, using it as a rope to pull him up.

Hmmm…I miss Oregon.

Tatiana –

Besides, women do need options.

And what about men? I think it is patently unfair that women get all the best accessories. Not that I want shoes to match all my skirts – colors are for clashing after all. But still…

Re:”Sexy clothing” and naked woman in bed wearing high heels (sooooo uncomfortable)- I think men invented it.

I never understood the whole shoes and sex thing, until I learned that there are a lot of foot fetishists out there. “Sexy” clothing never really did much for me either, I think something gets lost of the moment, when you have a ten minute interlude of trying to extricate the woman or yourself from said clothes – and they aren’t really all that exciting. Simple, pretty unders are far preferable to complicated negligee.

Re:”Sexy clothing” and naked woman in bed wearing high heels (sooooo uncomfortable)- I think men invented it.

6 pairs, no heels. Even when you factor in my plan to buy myself a pair of Vibram Five Fingers, it’s still considerably fewer that A nony nony. I think sexist-assumption-man is sexist.

Re: shopping. I didn’t read the source because Evo-psych just makes me want to throw things, but did the study cite any evidence that women actually do shop more than men? What about women who don’t like shopping, did they investigate that, clearly perverse (eyeroll), phenomenon? What about women who don’t live in rich, Western countries?

By the way, there are important implications. Say you are target. You would want to position the sexy clothing in relation to objects related to the menstrual cycle. Or, say, pregnancy test kits. I’m not sure how this would all work, but for enough consulting money I’ll think of something.