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PackerGreg wrote: ↑Cougarmagic: What were you doing in a rugged yet easily-accessed canyon that is rarely frequented by people?
Everyone else: Use the restrooms provided before entering the East Fork lest you make an appearance in some sick video

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PackerGreg wrote: ↑Cougarmagic: What were you doing in a rugged yet easily-accessed canyon that is rarely frequented by people?
Everyone else: Use the restrooms provided before entering the East Fork lest you make an appearance in some sick video

And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you darned kids!

(There is no surveillance of the East Fork at the present time though - so no worries. Do say hi to the bears if you see them though!)

dima wrote: I went up that canyon last year: east-fork-big-santa-anita-creek-t6871.html

Started from Chantry Flat, following the main Santa Anita canyon channel, then turned into the East Fork. I climbed up to the Clamshell Road in your circled area. I don't remember EXACTLY what the creek looked like, but I don't think there was a ton of water. It was nice, but I'd be surprised if there was enough for fish to live there. I'd remember it more clearly if there was.

Near the main channel there were some pools, but these become a smaller river as you go upstream; I think. And I didn't take the ridge Brennen mentions. That sounds like a heavy bushwhack. You should go check it out and report back!

dima wrote: It's easy to bypass on the right. Read the post.

1blazepatrick1 wrote:I am very new to this forum (and forums in general) so please let me know if I'm doing anything at all wrong or unusual.

Sean wrote: Let us know if you make it to that fishing spot.

1blazepatrick1 wrote:

dima wrote: It's easy to bypass on the right. Read the post.

Ok I see it now, thanks!

bcrowell wrote:
(c) Brennan's sport is canyoneering, meaning he does all these trips while carrying a rope and wearing a harness, and he has a huge amount of experience with improvising rappel anchors. Although it does appear that this particular description offers a route that doesn't require rappelling, if you walk into this situation without canyoneering gear, you are limiting your options. It's very easy to get trapped in these steep canyons, because there can be slopes that you can get down but not up..

bcrowell wrote: If this is the first time you've tried following a route described by Brennen's online pages, here are some things to watch out for:

(a) These pages are all about 20 years old, and I don't think he actively updates them. I have often found that conditions have changed significantly by the time I get to a place he describes. E.g., I have found a canyon choked with debris so that the route he described was completely impassable.

(b) Brennen is/was a hard-man scrambler and bushwhacker. When he describes the difficulty or danger of a certain route, mentally add a calibration onto it. For me, if he says it's "straightforward," it means I'm going to be scared out of my mind. In the route you're describing, he refers to a "tough steep climb (and bushwhack)," which after calibration translates in my mind into "suicide."

(c) Brennan's sport is canyoneering, meaning he does all these trips while carrying a rope and wearing a harness, and he has a huge amount of experience with improvising rappel anchors. Although it does appear that this particular description offers a route that doesn't require rappelling, if you walk into this situation without canyoneering gear, you are limiting your options. It's very easy to get trapped in these steep canyons, because there can be slopes that you can get down but not up.
My suggestion would be that before attempting something like this route that seems likely to be hard and sketchy, you might want to get in some experience on an easy, safe canyoneering route such as Bailey Canyon. That way you have some basic canyoneering gear and skills and are less likely to get in serious trouble.

Rudy Rodriguez wrote: I read that some people have grown marijuana in this canyon. That sounds too close to a well used trail to be a secure location for that sort if activity. I dunno.