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Hiked down the Bright Angel trail past Indian Gardens and just above the Devil's Corkscrew where the trail starts to leave the canyon, we dropped down into the narrows of Indian Gardens Canyon (Garden Creek). It starts right off with some slippery down climbing and a 12ft drop, but just around the corner is a super sweet 120ft falls. 
Once down that, you're standing above the sloped 400ft falls. 
Eventually the third rappeler found it on the other side of a super sweet rooster tail that shoots the water out a good 10-15ft feet. 
I ascended back up to that bolt, set the final 200ft rappel for the others while painstakingly pulling the ropes from the upper drop. It's just a wierd spot & angle to be pulling from. 
Glad to have that bolt there though, lest I'd be carrying my 400ft rope down where... 
Took a much needed lunch break while soaking in that beautiful & tall falls. Thankfully the day was warm enough that we didn't need wetsuits for any of this. 
The next section of cascading drops we felt it safer to rappel it and found a bush anchor that we used for our final 80ft multi-drop rappel before ending at the bottom of the canyon across from the BA trail. Dropped gear and made the hot & dry hike up the Devil's Corkscrew. Not too bad, even with wet canyon gear, and then rested in Indian Gardens. The steep hike out, especially the last 3 miles, were quite exhausting with all the heavy canyon gear on our backs. 