Ausable Chasm is known as “The Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks.” It is a sandstone gorge that is about two miles long, carved by the Ausable River through the 500-million-year-old Cambrian Period Potsdam Sandstone around 10,000 years ago. The Ausable River runs through it and empties into Lake Champlain and is fed at the south end by the 91-foot-tall Rainbow Falls. Though not as grand as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, this chasm boasts of a continuous exposure of a section of

Waterfalls always strike me with awe, whether I am viewing it from afar, from above, from below, or from behind. They carry with them an air of might and majesty, and at the same time evoke a whiff of magic and mystery. Behind the curtain of gushing waters, it is not difficult to picture enchanted fairies frolicking in the mist. I have, in fact, taped two fantasy-inspired television show episodes near the waterfalls when I was working in television production in the Philippin