EISPIRATEN

Two first descents in a day, right next to each other.

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A: Top of ridge, near drop in
B: Poison Cyn
C: Beggar's Cyn
D: Parking

Beggar's Cyn was cool. Not much bushwhacking overall. You can run it now, since we cleared it out. There's a sub 200ft rapp at the end down a big waterfall as visible from West Fork Road. We started just before dawn and got back to the car before noon. This canyon is very worth repeating. It's short and fun. There could be an anchor challenge at the first decent size rapp, which is an L shaped jog on the map. First stage is like a belayed downclimb (low angle rapp), and the second is 60ft or so down a nice waterfall. The anchor is a group of young Scrub Oak about 1" in diameter and under. It's solid, but I can see most folks thinking it would fail.

Poison Cyn has endless poison oak, just tons of the shit. Lots of bushwhacking in there, though it's relatively easy. The rapps are OK, and the three final rapps are nice. It is not worth doing again.

Photo zeit!

Beggar's Canyon:




Going up


Ze canyon


Sun up


R1






Easy canyon travel




First stage of the first bigg-ish rapp


Down 2nd stage


The anchor that would make most folks uncomfortable. I backed up Ty and Bart with my sexay boday... (meat anchor)


No other natural anchor options... maybe a knot chock or something. no big rocks for a deadman. The rock is decent. We don't bolt dawg! Bolts explode, you know.




2nd Stage




Bart's first canyon, and he already knows what's up!






Tree-in-the-Wall Falls. That bigass tree is actually growing straight outta the wall!


Bart approaches the final rapp, sub 200ft (about 175?).




Fire dep't. doing some burn stuff






Bye bye Tye


Up








The final rap from afar, and from the road where everyone can see it from.


Mind blown




Arright, now here be Poison Canyon:


Hiking up


One of the rapps in Poison


Down canyon


Wet






Using webbing




More canyon travel


Bear skull








First of the last 3 rapps






2nd of 3








Big meany!




Last rapp...









Last rapp from the road




TERRORISM

Adios

Talk about low water for this time for year.

That last waterfall of Beggar's canyon is such a waste of height and water. Although I did see it once in saturated mode, and it was impressive.

Taco,did you see the cactus patch east of it?

Yessuh, not a heck of a lot of flow.

Yeah, is something special about them cacti?

Taco wrote: ↑Yessuh, not a heck of a lot of flow.

Yeah, is something special about them cacti?

Nothing special...though they seem out of place. There isnt any around those parts besides them that I know of, so there might be a story.

There's a TON on the mountainside a bit before you reach Morris Dam going uphill. That's about it. Maybe there was a structure there at the bottom of this cyn long ago or something.