The new home owner at Camp Huntington Dr has blocked access to the river at the water company reservoir, so we started above, at the old rail right of way at Rubio Vista Dr. The trail is in good shape, and somebody even built a solid wooden bridge over one of the gullies as part of their Eagle Scout project. We took the connector down to the creek (trail is in good shape), and walked the river bed up. The trail comes and goes, since the recent storms are actively reforming the river bottom. There're a few small waterfalls to climb over, but it's pretty easy going. We ran into Sean at the Rubio pavilion ruins. There's a big recent landslide there: a big chunk of the mountain sloughed off into the river from the East. Easy to walk over. The lower falls are working well:
We took some photos, and climbed up the bypass gully
Part of the way up was this water level gauge:
It can measure up to 1000 gallons! Wes was impressed
We didn't bother going to see the middle falls (and Sean said it was impassable, anyway). From the overlook, the Tlalehaha falls are flowing well. And there were even some canyoneers in the process of descending
We kept climbing to a good view of the Leontine falls:
Eventually we found the right trails to connect to the fixed ropes, and dropped down to the area between the two big drops. The less-impressive bottom tier of the Leontine falls:
Wes and Sondra climbing up the next section:
Here the river becomes less steep, and it's a nice boulder hop for a while
We got to the water intake. The filter is in place, but the pipe it connects to is broken. Wes was not impressed:
Another branch of the water system keeps running up, doing impressive things:
Eventually we decided to begin the climb out. Here you can see the creek further up. It is steeper, and there're more waterfalls:
This part is called "Castle Canyon", I think. In any case, when climbing up, I find the correct line about half the time. If the correct line is not found, some bushwhacking results, and we ended up doing some of that:
We were rewarded with an antler, so it's not all bad. There were a number of hikers up on Echo Mountain, but it wasn't the zoo it often is. We took in the views for a while: clear all the way to Santa Barbara island. And we read the info panels: apparently Thaddeus Lowe was a baloonist, and he once flew 900 miles in 9 hours. Then it was time to descend. I usually take the Incline trail down, but we decided that we have been spending too much time on trails, so we went straight down the old funicular right of way. The top section is off-trail, and I've never done it before. It's very steep, but clear and passable. Looks like this:
Eventually the Incline trail rejoined our line, and it was easy going all the way back down to the trailhead. Loose stats: somewhere between 6-7 miles, 1500-2000ft of gain.
not me?. 
