Sulphide Creek
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48.7974, -121.5759
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Introduction
The holy grail of Washington canyoning?
From worldwaterfalldatabase.com:
Sulphide Creek creates one of the tallest waterfalls in North America as it plunges and cascades out of practically unreachable Sulphide Lake, situated on the southeast corner of Mount Shuksan within North Cascades National Park. The creek empties from the lake into an exceptionally narrow gorge, fluming down several hundred feet before reaching a more abrupt cliff and beginning a more vertical descent, plunging over several individual but closely spaced tiers of several hundred feet each, ending almost 2200 vertical feet below the lake's outlet. This not only makes it a continentally significant waterfall for its height, but because the volume of meltwater from the Sulphide and Crystal Glaciers - the two largest on Mount Shuksan - flowing over the falls can swell to as much as an estimated 500 cubic feet per second during the hottest days of the summer, the falls are further significant for its height coupled with great volume. Because the geology of the bedrock surrounding the falls has allowed the creek to incise heavily into the mountainside, the falls are heavily obscured from view from most angles and can only be seen from a nearly straight-on angle. Extremely thick avalanche brush and snow-stunted forest growth surround the basin at the bottom of the falls and make accessing the bottom of the falls exceptionally difficult and for all intents, impractical.
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Beta sites
The following sites are for prospecting only.
CanyoneeringNorthwest.com (archive.org) : Canyon Prospects in the North Cascades- World of Waterfalls
- NW Hikers Forums on Sulphide
- NW Hikers Forums on Sulphide- Additional
Trip reports and media
Scouting to the base/afar by User:Jakehuddleston:
- Oct 2021: https://www.facebook.com/jake.huddleston.90/posts/pfbid0GBnpMdJrske49QEvaPcavxQCKP7GcKBJnhw2jbEDcScRW51qGDH8FYmuB6XVtUtrl
- Aug 2020: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1449442538584494
Scout from above/side by User:EricJ, July 2023:
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/153315581696/?multi_permalinks=10159306705871697
- https://www.facebook.com/aidanmwilson/posts/pfbid0i1PWkozKcJveoN7pgrc8B7kcsF5418JsY3dn2R8JeAT12ZmwirrwTAkYkLiGbgm5l