On Sat 6/6 I attempted to hike the Sylmar waterfall above Veteran's Memorial Park. I thought it'd be fairly easy, but it wasn't. Esp when I ran into this, which I take to be at least 5.10. I couldn't find good foot or hand holds and, given I'd gone to the gym the day before, I had an extra gallon of water in my pack (for a ruck lite), and I had something else to do I didn't want to spend a lot of time trying to get up the rope so I turned tail and ran away. I also didn't entirely trust the rope.
On the 13th I'll be in Santa Clara for Qatar v Switzerland, then the next day I'll be doing the Alameda County highpoint if anyone's interested.
Pray for Shaqiri to change his mind at the last moment.
Hitting the wall
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GoalHiking
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Nate U
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I've done routes right near it but didn't know about this waterfall! But yeah it's on Alltrails I see. Sounds like the trail is pretty rough and informal. Just when you think you've done everything around the SFV, you are reminded there's always another canyon...
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dima
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Can you climb the tree? Or the rope?
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Sean
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Yeah, that's a wall alright. Thanks for the report. I'll make sure to avoid that place.
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David R
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There are so many rescues up this canyon, it may be our new Eaton Canyon.
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Nate U
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This is when Alltrails can really backfire from a safety perspective - anonymously-posted trails that aren't actually trails in high-traffic areas luring the naive and unprepared into things like sketchy waterfall climbs up informally-attached ropes, etc. I'm not sure what sort of reliable, knowledgable authorities monitor what gets posted on Alltrails? If that even happens at all?