1 S Harvard(pretty much dry) to Idlehour
lower reaches of Caltech and all the way down Eaton creek to the point of no return
middle section of Eaton past the narrows
other than that both had water that was nice and clear, with good streamflow.
Reached Slide Falls(7 ft deep) to find 8 teens(some of who had said they jumped it anyway). Continued on past them and went to take Razorback ridge back down and turned around at the first freeclimb....reediculous! Downclimb/scramble and then downstream to the anchor for Eaton Falls. False rope installed for rigging at anchor. Cut rope revealed rope was stuffed with basically cotton.
Dropped rappel side of rope, but kids down below think rope was dropped for them to climb
Beat the teens down who took the drainage downstream of Razorback ridge....despite a total time of 1.5 hours. A confession was made that they were in over their heads and were about to ask me for help at Slide Falls. They wont be back to Slide Falls.
edit: The Gully waterfall bolt is on the way to becoming undone....still quite safe right now IMO. Also observed webbing in the gully canyon right just downstream of the Gully waterfall section.
Caltech cyn above the falls(which BTW measured to equal 60ft(67 ft to anchor))
Caltech canyon travel
Eaton well downstream of Idlehour
Log to bypass swim
swim
'the pool', approx 6ft deep
old art and new art observed throughout the lower section
razorback ridge from above Eaton Falls, 2 freeclimbs on chossy rock...on the way back down a rock broke away from my foot...always fun.
false rope anchor at Eaton Falls...I didnt get a picture of the braided cotton inside. I think there was a very thin wire in there as well.
