Glossary -- Waterfalls and Pour-Overs Pour-over. A usually dry waterfall. A place in a wash or canyon where water, if it were flowing, would “pour over” a ledge to form a waterfall. Also called a dryfall. Photos: Fall Canyon, Death Valley National Park as seen from below (left) and above (right). Note that pour-overs always look higher and harder to climb from above. Waterfall. A place where a perennial stream or river falls or cascades over a cliff. Photos: Willow Canyon, Death Valley National Park (left); Tuolumne River at Glenn Aulun, Yosemite National Park (right).

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