Cold Spring Canyon
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| | Difficulty:3A II PG (v4a1 II) Raps:3-4, max ↨185ft
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| Condition Reports: | 20 Jan 2019
"The Thomas fire and subsequent flood have devastated the area, though they have made the waterfall much nicer to rappel, and completely cleaned out an |
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| Best season: | Spring;Summer;Fall;Winter
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34.4702, -119.6588
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WaterflowIntroduction[edit]
Cold Spring Canyon contains Tangerine Falls with a straight drop of approximately 150ft. You will need a minimum of 185 feet of rope if you rappel from the chockstone.
Be aware the entire trail system has been devastated.
Approach[edit]
Park at the Cold Spring Trail head and take the West Fork route up canyon. The road was washed out so now when you get there, park, and head up the left side of the watercourse. Stay to the left. When you reach the large boulder with a wood post cemented in the ground, the trail will fork left. You should defend into the watercourse and make your way up to the base of the falls. At the falls you will head to the right up the scree, burned out area, and hike/climb up and around the backside of the large rock cliff face. This is dangerous loose stone and scree. At the top head up and over into the wash.
Descent[edit]
The first obstacle can be fiddlestick off bay laurel trees dcl, or a root system dcl. There is a 10 foot rappel here, or a down climb with a meat anchor assist as back up. dcl there are a few more down climbs and a rappel off another tree root system 15 feet to a chockstone. Not: If you drop into the watercourse directly and follow it to the top of the falls you will miss the shelf with the chockstone and may not be able to get to it. The anchor is off a chockstone to the right above the pour-over in the falls. So it's a bit of a 2 stage. If you follow the watercourse you will end up below the shelf with the chockstone, with no anchor material. This chockstone has been a feature in the canyon for decades. You will not find webbing there, so be prepared to use ghost techniques or install webbing. From here it is 185 feet to the bottom.
Exit[edit]
Follow the use trail back to the fork, and then back the way you came.
Red tape[edit]
Beta sites[edit]
- Tangerine Falls via West Fork on Santa Barbara Hikes
- Tangerine Falls hike on hikespeak
SummitPost.org : Cold Springs Canyon- Tangerine Falls on World of Waterfalls
Trip reports and media[edit]
==Background==We descended this canyon in 2015. It has been a dry fall since 2012. The first descent (Fabrienne Bowman and Danielle Monroy) used the "sneak" approach" The second (D. & B. Monroy) used the "full approach", which adds a small rappel (r1).
