Near the highway up to Echo Summit is Osgood Lake (formerly Osgood Swamp but then beavers came and did their thing). It was named for Nehemiah Osgood, who built a toll house nearby back in 1859 to collect funds to maintain the road up and over Echo Summit.
I was hiking around Osgood yesterday and heard water flowing. Looking up the mountain to the west is a 100-foot-tall waterfall. In the land of big waterfalls, all of which are gushing, this one is a delicate delight, cascading down the mountain. If I were to go 1000 feet up, I'd hit Echo Lake, which, at 7400 feet, is no doubt still frozen.
If you don't pause and look carefully, you'll miss the falls.
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