his photograph was shot along the upper American River. If you follow the old 49er gold trail up just past this place, and do some climbing, you'll get to the place where the painting "The Last Days of the American River" was painted. A really nice skinny dipping spot on a hot summer's day. If you turn left before the climbing part, you can scramble up another nice gorge. Not for couch potatoes.

Back during the Gold Rush, some prospectors heard the booming of a big waterfall farther up that canyon to the left, and thought it was thunder. Later, when they scrambled up there to look and discovered the fall, they named it "Bogus Thunder", and it's still called that.