Merritt Falls

Park at the Lake Ethel Trailhead and hike up the steep trail until it flattens out at around 3800ft. Then cut off to the right, easy bushwacking, until you reach the creek.

Make your way down the creek doing a lot of down-climbing or rappels off trees, or bushwhacking around to the left. This could perhaps be bypassed and made more interesting by doing a big 150-200ft-ish rap from the cliffs down into the creek at about 47.7692, -120.8408. The main section starts soon after: Then a bit more creek walking to: As you head towards R1, there are several areas that could be turned into rappels for the more enterprising canyoneer or may be of more intrigue during higher flow. Particularly, there is a two tier cascading falls immediately at drop in point.