That was my first canyoneering experience. We did it in 12 hours car to car. Rope wiki description.
3 hours hike to the top of Mt. Lukens was uneventful, but description is wrong, it's 3250 ft elevation gain and not 1680 ft. Our drop in point was also different, from water tower we hiked NNW ridge and then did 90 degrees left to drop into the canyon.
Canyon is very overgrown, seems like there was no people there for last 10 years or so, many down trees and lot of poison oak, but straying at bottom of canyon worked out for us. I think, we also down climbed rappel 3 and 4.
Here is some pictures from the trip:
3 hours hike to the top of Mt. Lukens was uneventful, but description is wrong, it's 3250 ft elevation gain and not 1680 ft. Our drop in point was also different, from water tower we hiked NNW ridge and then did 90 degrees left to drop into the canyon.
Canyon is very overgrown, seems like there was no people there for last 10 years or so, many down trees and lot of poison oak, but straying at bottom of canyon worked out for us. I think, we also down climbed rappel 3 and 4.
Here is some pictures from the trip:
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| Silver canyon from Mt. Lukens |
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| Dropping into the canyon |
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| Top of canyon |
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| Down climbing |
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| 1st waterfall |
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| Looking down 2nd waterfall |
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| 2nd waterfall |
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| Last waterfall |
