20120304 Schvaterfall Cyn First Descent - 300ft'er!!!!

Taco · 20120304 Schvaterfall Cyn First Descent - 300ft'er!!!!

Amanda and I just got back from doing the first descent of a previously un-named canyon that drains into Bichota Canyon near Rattlesnake Peak. It was relatively tough, with lots of bushwhacking. The rating is somewhere around 4BIV. The 4 is for the multistage rapp, as well as the fun anchors (rock pinch, rock pile/deadman). It might be a class C instead of B, but I dunno. Splitting hairs... it's a wet canyon and you could swim in it, but we didn't so I just figure whatever. The rating is a general guide, not a rule. ANywho... so there was a 300ft or so waterfall! We did it in two stages, 170ft on R1 and 150ft on R2. Anchor was 20ft back on R1 so it's right at about 300ft. The pics are great.

Enjoy them pics yo.

Looking down the canyon from the dropin

First couple rapps and a pool

Cool rapp

Some of the easier bushwhacking

Getting slottier

Stage 1 of the 300ft'er

Amanda descending stage 1

MONSTER Poison Oak

Looking down the 2nd stage

2nd stage

Next rapp into a pool

Nice little spot

Terrible rapp that pissed me off. I was literally covered in those stinking biting ants and the rope was threatening to get all caught up in the dead stuff at the bottom. Went better than expected.

Outta here!

3hr hike out Bichota Canyon

A new friend!

Found this before hiking onto R39.

Here's a massive Acme Mapper link...
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.272...Fork%20San%20Gabriel%20River%20CA

A is the start of 2n15 or whatever that you hike up to reach the drop in (B). C is the end... D is the end of Bichota Cyn, and E is the car!

Seeya

lilbitmo

Nice work Amanda and Taco - looks like another fun outing, had I not been extremely tired from the previous three days I would have found a way to make it work but I needed a down day.

MPO may become a new lexicon for me - Massive Poison Oak, I need that like a sharp stick in the eye - the second one sounds less painful for me Shocked

Nice waterfalls - great pictures Very Happy

Max Falcon

Haha, it was a loooong day for sure. We missed our machete bro! No signs of PO yet, keeping fingers crossed. :/

AW

Excellent waterfall....nice flow for this drought season too. me thinks you hit the jackpot in terms of finding a nice SG waterfall amidst jungle bushwhacking.

So strange you found that doll. Wasn't Bichota the start of the curve fire and 'they' said it was set by some devil cult? There be the smoking gun?

cougarmagic

Cool canyon! The name cracks me up.

Does anyone know what the calcified fern formations are called? If it were limestone, it would be called travertine. (Limestone - don't take it for granite. Laughing

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But really - is there a specific term for this? It doesn't occur very much in the SGs.

longcut · waterfall

really, really cool.

rios

The statue you guys found is "Santa Muerte"

PackerGreg

There must have been some sort of civilization near the head of that canyon because of all the Eupatoria. Cool to see that Horsetail Rush in there!

Taco

Burchey

Nice work MANG

Taco