Unnamed Waterfall

Hearty Creek is the southernmost stream which drains off the east side of the Twin Sisters Mountain Massif southwest of Mount Baker. The stream is endowed at least 11 significant waterfalls along its roughly 3-mile length. Only the final falls along the creek – Bridal Veil Falls – carries a historically recognized name, any titles bestowed upon the other falls along the creek are purely colloquial in origin. We have opted to forgo naming most of them. There is no developed access to any of these waterfalls. This waterfall is found about halfway between Heart Lake and the mouth of the creek below Bridal Veil Falls. The falls consist of of a back-to-back cascading type falls which total 39 feet in height, with individual drops of 21 and 18 feet. The upper tier tumbles down an inclined ramp of bedrock, partially veiling outward as it falls, and the lower tier is a broader, more chaotic cascading fall that can splits into multiple channels depending on the streamflow. Hearty Creek heads in Heart Lake, and unlike all of the other easterly-flowing streams on Twin Sisters Mountain, it does not originate in any permanent snow or ice. The drainage area upstream from this waterfall covers approximately 1.4 square miles, and because of its small size and lack of permanent snow to continually feed into the creek, the volume of the stream will be greatly reduced by mid summer.