Pour-overs, also called "dry falls" or "pour-offs," are waterfalls that usually are dry. A place in a wash or canyon where water, if it were flowing, would "pour over" a ledge to form a waterfall. Note that pour-overs always look higher and harder to climb from above.
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 View from below: not too high |
 Same pour-over from above: holy cow! - that's a long way down! |
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 Passing a pour-over by tunneling through boulders |
 Walk-up pour-over |
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 Some pour-overs are easy to pass |
 Pour-over formed by a boulder blocking a canyon |
Happy hiking! All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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