Conditions:Wolfskill Canyon-20221127020736

Latest:	26 Nov 2022 (2 yrs, 7 mos ago)

Reported by:	Jcsjcs (121 reports)
Quality:	Good
Waterflow:	Very Low
Wetsuit:	None
Water temperature:
Difficulty:	Normal
Time:	6 hours

Team: 1 people

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Comments: Parked on the road east of the reservoir and took a steep trail not on the topo map up to the fire road beginning at 34.159, -117.768. The road crested the ridge and soon linked up with Brennen's approach. Total approach time 2:05. The slope down to the canyon floor was messy with many dead trees to slide under but I soon found a decent gully to follow. Wolfskill Canyon proved to be a beautiful, charming, and shaded place with steady waterflow throughout. It was mainly open and easy to travel down, but the portions that were overgrown unfortunately had thorny bushes as the dominant species, making travel through these patches much slower than they would have been with canyon kelp. I descended the multi-step waterfall R1, after which there was substantially more need for wading and the density of thorny bushes increased. I was thankful to arrive at the top of the main event and chose to anchor off of the tree DCR that Brennen mentions. The rappel was decidedly not 100' per the beta, more like 110', and is directly in the watercourse for the lower half. I'm not sure why Brennen gave this canyon an A rating and I've updated the page to B. I rappelled the smaller waterfall immediately following the main one. It had some very odd hardware including a pair of bolted anchors high on the cliff DCR with seemingly no way to get to them, random wires draped across the canyon, and some piece of unistrut bolted to the rock at the bottom of the waterfall. Descent time was 3:10. Following this final rappel I was hoping that the going would get easier, but the dirt road that the beta mentions appears to have almost entirely vanished so there was still plenty of bushwhacking past the junction with San Dimas Canyon until the road finally established itself. Exit time 1:00.

All condition reports

Date	Quality	Waterflow	Wetsuit	Difficulty	Time	Team	Reported by
26 Nov 2022	Good	Very Low	None	Normal	6 hours	1 people	Jcsjcs (121 reports)
Comment: Parked on the road east of the reservoir and took a steep trail not on the topo map up to the fire road beginning at 34.159, -117.768. The road crested the ridge and soon linked up with Brennen's approach. Total approach time 2:05. The slope down to the canyon floor was messy with many dead trees to slide under but I soon found a decent gully to follow. Wolfskill Canyon proved to be a beautiful, charming, and shaded place with steady waterflow throughout. It was mainly open and easy to travel down, but the portions that were overgrown unfortunately had thorny bushes as the dominant species, making travel through these patches much slower than they would have been with canyon kelp. I descended the multi-step waterfall R1, after which there was substantially more need for wading and the density of thorny bushes increased. I was thankful to arrive at the top of the main event and chose to anchor off of the tree DCR that Brennen mentions. The rappel was decidedly not 100' per the beta, more like 110', and is directly in the watercourse for the lower half. I'm not sure why Brennen gave this canyon an A rating and I've updated the page to B. I rappelled the smaller waterfall immediately following the main one. It had some very odd hardware including a pair of bolted anchors high on the cliff DCR with seemingly no way to get to them, random wires draped across the canyon, and some piece of unistrut bolted to the rock at the bottom of the waterfall. Descent time was 3:10. Following this final rappel I was hoping that the going would get easier, but the dirt road that the beta mentions appears to have almost entirely vanished so there was still plenty of bushwhacking past the junction with San Dimas Canyon until the road finally established itself. Exit time 1:00.