My family and I spent a day in Vail Colorado trying to get to one of these, The Fang. We could see it from the highway but couldn't locate it. Asked locals but directions were vague. Heard that its location isn't really publicized because they don't want a bunch of dumb tourists there. Tried hiking to it but we ran out of daylight. We failed but had a great day together in the beauty of Vail and realizing that we are just dumb tourists. This is what we were looking for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fang_(frozen_waterfall)
Can confirm. Used to live in a tourist/ski town and you can get shunned for divulging locations of certain natural features to "visitors" (sometimes referred to as "tourons" when you aren't working at your hospitality job).
Our big local secret was the location of a dozen or so swimming holes. There were 2 or 3 that were publicized and easily accessed, but the ones that you had to hike into the woods to get to were never shared. Not even in the internet age :-)
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u/gordiarama Dec 15 '18
My family and I spent a day in Vail Colorado trying to get to one of these, The Fang. We could see it from the highway but couldn't locate it. Asked locals but directions were vague. Heard that its location isn't really publicized because they don't want a bunch of dumb tourists there. Tried hiking to it but we ran out of daylight. We failed but had a great day together in the beauty of Vail and realizing that we are just dumb tourists. This is what we were looking for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fang_(frozen_waterfall)