Tracking Down MORE Lost Falls - East Fork This Time
Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 3:27 pm
There are hundreds of lost secrets in this mountain range. My next adventure began when I found an old photo from 1909 in the Los Angeles Herald. It was in the Fishing Section (fishing was big in that day in the East Fork) They use to stock the stream and there were some pretty big trout in it. The paper gave the name of the falls, which would give its location away, and since some taggers have already found it I won't mention that publicly. But if you want to know, just shoot me a private message. It is ridiculously easy to get to.
The caption under the photo read "Scaling the cliffs at ????? Falls, East Fork, San Gabriel River. Again I don't want to mention the name because it will give the location away. I had to look closely for who was actually scaling the cliff, but I circled four guys in the second half of the photo. There may be a fifth guy next to the boulder in the lower left.
And here's what it looks like today.
Unfortunately the scumbags have found it, and tagged it up. If you've ever been to Bridge to Nowhere you've driven right past this.
Clue Number 1. ^^^
Clue Number 2. ^^^
Those two clues are a lot more than I had, and it took some time but I found it eventually.
You can get above these falls by climbing up the left side. Things have gotten easier over the last 111 years. At the top there's a noticeable wall built into the rock. Originally it had a miner's flume hooked up to it.
BONUS FALLS - SAME CANYON
After getting past the first I wanted to see if there were any more, and sure enough there was a double dipper further back.
Here's the first tier. It looks like this is a spring fed canyon, so this probably flows year round.
You can get above this one by climbing up the right side. Somebody has left a flimsy rope up there.
Here's what it looks like between the upper and lower falls.
And here's what it looks like above both tiers. You gotta be careful when you walk across the moss.
After this I went further up the canyon but I didn't find anything beyond that point. So far I've found six spectacular and virtually unknown falls in the East Fork.
The caption under the photo read "Scaling the cliffs at ????? Falls, East Fork, San Gabriel River. Again I don't want to mention the name because it will give the location away. I had to look closely for who was actually scaling the cliff, but I circled four guys in the second half of the photo. There may be a fifth guy next to the boulder in the lower left.
And here's what it looks like today.
Unfortunately the scumbags have found it, and tagged it up. If you've ever been to Bridge to Nowhere you've driven right past this.
Clue Number 1. ^^^
Clue Number 2. ^^^
Those two clues are a lot more than I had, and it took some time but I found it eventually.
You can get above these falls by climbing up the left side. Things have gotten easier over the last 111 years. At the top there's a noticeable wall built into the rock. Originally it had a miner's flume hooked up to it.
BONUS FALLS - SAME CANYON
After getting past the first I wanted to see if there were any more, and sure enough there was a double dipper further back.
Here's the first tier. It looks like this is a spring fed canyon, so this probably flows year round.
You can get above this one by climbing up the right side. Somebody has left a flimsy rope up there.
Here's what it looks like between the upper and lower falls.
And here's what it looks like above both tiers. You gotta be careful when you walk across the moss.
After this I went further up the canyon but I didn't find anything beyond that point. So far I've found six spectacular and virtually unknown falls in the East Fork.