The bowl
Round rock.
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Helmcken Falls is a 141-metre waterfall on the Murtle River in Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. Protecting it was one of the reasons the park was created in 1939, and it is one of the tallest waterfalls in Canada. The Murtle River has six other falls above Helmcken, including Dawson and the Mushbowl; only three can be reached by road, the others by trail or seen only from the air. Railway surveyors in the 1870s did not mention seeing it, and its discovery is credited to Robert Lee. From the viewing platform you see a powerful white fall dropping into a huge round rock bowl with dark volcanic walls, throwing up thick spray. Green spruce forest rings the bowl, and in winter the spray freezes into a great cone of ice at the foot of the falls. It is about 35 km from the town of Clearwater in a straight line. The viewing platform is close to the car park, and the road in is paved.
Round rock.
Thick.
An ice cone.
Wells Gray Provincial Park, north of Clearwater, Canada
Yes, six more on the Murtle River, including Dawson Falls.
Yes, when an ice cone forms at its base.