San Francisquito Canyon (West Fork)

> Please carry your favorite Gardening tools to every canyon (Folding Saw, Pruners, Loppers, Machete). We all need to help with trail and canyon maintenance on every trip. A short and nice canyon in a less canyoneered area. First Known Descent: November 10, 2019 First Known Descent Members: Eshed Bootel, Gil Chotam, Matan Bootel, Ty Chotam

Getting There: You can take different exits from the 5 Fwy. Go North-East and get to Cooper Hill Dr. Turn Left (North) on San Francisquito Canyon Rd. and drive 6.3 miles to the parking at 34.540057, -118.526402. You can see the last waterfall from the road. Approach: The approach is short and steep. Go West from the car and take the first ridge. You’ll see a clear trail going up and it will take you to your drop-in point.

Hiking down from the saddle, you will quickly get to a 40’ angled, 3 tier drop. The rock is very crumbly - Do Not try to down-climb. Are 15’of webbing and a quick-link worth your life? Build a Cairn anchor and rappel. From here you will pass 2 more drops before joining the main canyon. Once you get to the main canyon you’ll have one 10’ down-climb and two 30’ rappels. Waterfalls: Waterfall notes: 1. The actual height for the vertical tiers is about 40’, however the anchor was a bit far and we chose to rappel about 90’. 2. You may be able to down-climb this. We chose to wrap the rope around a white rock in the canter and rappel from that.

From the bottom of the last rappel it’s a short walk back to the car.