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Overview
A short and strenuous little-known trip to an incredible secluded canyon waterfall in the southern Sequoia National Forest, just north of Kernville. This route is mostly on use-trails and can be a moderate rock-hopping excursion or an intense scrambling trip with a few class 3 bouldering sections. Either way, you get to see an unbelievable canyon with a majestic waterfall (and sometimes TWO waterfalls in wet years!) in a secluded grove. This area also looks to be popular with the climbing crowd: many cables have been installed near the waterfall with mostly 5.10 routes. A surprising and wonderful hike! The team at SoCalRafting.com recently invited me up to Kernville to introduce me to some rafting – but seeing as I’m primarily a hiker they wanted to make sure I also got some good time on the trail before I put on a life-jacket. Their Online Manager Diana and Guide Manager John took us north of Kernville to a trail they said wasn’t on many hiking maps – and the roads we traveled on to get there didn’t show up on Google Maps when I looked it up online. The trail begins at the end of a service road for the California Aqueduct a flume that carries water from the Kern River to a hydroelectric plant north of town, listed as the Rincon Trail or Forest Road 33E23. You won’t see a trailhead or sign, but you will see a use-trail leading up right next to the tunnel where the Aqueduct goes into the mountain.
Trail Stats
2.6 km
175 m
1248 m
1080 m
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