Now I can check off the second waterfall in Björnån, having seen the first one last week. I was really curious to get there because in the satellite picture and on some maps it seemed like there was a bridge over the river, although it was nowhere marked as such. And indeed, a bridge it was – but not the kind I’d want to walk over! The planks were rotten and many were missing, so I settled to photographing it instead.
They used to do log driving on this river and it was very evident here, for example in the picture you can see the stone wall that guides the logs down the waterfall. We also found some duckboards that were barely visible from under the lichens and mosses, and an half-fallen bench used by log drivers while on watch to monitor the logs and ready to jump to action in case a log jam was forming. These constructions date back to the early 20th century and probably haven’t been used in at least half a century when log driving ended at Björnån.
Oh and the waterfall itself, it wasn’t actually half as interesting as the one last week. But I didn’t mind, all this other stuff we found made me feel like a historian, or an archaeologist, even!
Since the raining/snowing that they had forecast for today hadn’t started yet, we drove to Svansjöbäcken and followed it down until it levelled off. Somewhere around half way down the brook changes nature, from the cliffs upstream to rocks downstream. In the rocky parts the water almost disappears, so it will only be interesting when there’s more water so it will fall over the rocks. It will also be interesting to see the cliffs when there’s more water, although not too much – the cliffs are only attractive as long as they are visible!