First descent, Alain Rohr and Antoine Chabanais 2005
“Approach, true left, steep, to roughly 700m contour. Some nice absiels, with a good level of water. “
Years later, someone (Maybe Joe Budgen?) sent a ‘word topo’ to Dan Clearwater, which sat on his hard drive, sort of forgotten about …
In 2026, José J. Pintado J. drew a topo, based off the descriptions… Jose went for a look, but never made it into the canyon. From the road, it looks like a canyon worth re-visiting, and properly documenting.
Descent notes found in the depths of Dan’s hard drive…
- Park at the camp ground cross the river and the swampy flats.. make for the canyon
- Can see the final waterfall at the base of the flats/mtn
- Climb canyon left (right of creek on the way up)
- Stick reasonably close to the creek.. Good view of the 45m waterfall as you going up
once past the viewing point it gets steep and there was a small bluff we climbed trending away from the creek but not too far… - Once at a high point of ~750m countour back around toward the creek
slowly climbing down to meet the creek at ~715m - Canyon right single bolt abseil 5m to double anchor (canyon middle).. ~30m to base of falls
- Canyon left single bolt for hand rail to double(?) anchor.. ~40m to base of falls
Eascape possible here - 20m tree canyon right, under chocstone
- Canyon left single bolt 5m abseil over edge to small exposed ledge double bolts.. ~45m to base of falls
- Escape possible
- ~100m boulder bash
6m d/c canyon right - Single bolt canyon right ~12m to base of falls
- ~8m abseil canyon right (tree?)
- 20m creek bash
- Canyon right single bolt ~15m to base of falls
- 20m creek bash
- Tree Canyon left ~8m to base of falls
- Creek walk
- 2x 1m downclimbs
- Single bolt canyon left ~15m
- Short walk
- Final abseil single bolt in a really bad spot on canyon right ~15m
- The end..
