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| no partners | | Sierra Ancha Creek Bagging Day 3 of 4 - Park Creek Canyon
We debated heading over to see more of Upper Salome & JR via Cataract, but figured we'd have enough near home to keep us occupied. After following the road back out for a few minutes there was an easy drop to the rolling bedrock above the upper falls of park canyon. We enjoyed this from above and on the side, then saw a likely place to bypass on the south which worked out fine ~33.90502, -111.01733. This was probably easier just plunge stepping into powder, but should be fine dry. Looking at Salome Creek - Upper Loop you can bypass on the north side as well. We explored this middle ground area and really wanted to get a look at the lower falls, but figured we could do that in the evening.
We exited then followed FR 2747 to the junction with FR 2750 to Thoroughbred tank. From the tank we found a cow path heading where we were interested in going, and were puzzled by limbed trees. These continued past the crossing of thoroughbred creek up to a pasture, where the cows went their own way but arrows carved into a tree pointed the way to what I had assumed was a drainage on topo. Following cut limbs we dropped down to Park Creek, marveling at the time someone put into this horse path many many decades ago. Shortly upstream was what we dubbed Crescent Falls (flowing more dramatically than in [ photo ] , it's odd seeing spots we named as went along either dry or trickles in previous trip reports). This area is ROUGH with high water. We wanted to stay dry and weren't geared for hiking up water, but with the current and lack of visibility that wouldn't be a great option. We went up to the next cascade, which was an interesting problem, then up into the brush - and came across what was well over a dozen old barrel hoops in an overgrown clearing. wtf? pushed on a bit further, and higher, then gave up. Another come back when it's drier thing perhaps. Took some cow paths down just above Crescent, poked our head into the salmon and grey colored side creek feeding into it, and dropped downstream to a nice grey cascade and called it a day. Had second lunch and exited back to camp with more than an hour before sunset and happened to find ourselves at exactly this spot and enjoyed the falls we saw from above that morning for quite a while before heading back to camp. |
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