Chasing Waterfalls

Last Sunday Tosha, Ben, Jason and I went for a nice hike out in the beautiful wilderness of Topanga State Park. Our friends had been there the week before trying to find this waterfall on the Santa Ynez Trail, but had made a wrong turn. We were trying a different route, but after a pretty much vertical climb for a few hundred feet we saw a family with children backtracking (how those people managed that climb with a baby on their back and young ‘uns I’ll never know), saying it didn’t look like the waterfall was over there. So, after taking a rest and enjoying the view for a bit, we climbed/slid/crawled back down to the stream bed. There we found a couple of girls coming from upstream saying they had just been at the waterfall and it was about 20 minutes from where we were. The waterfall sounded really cool, but we were short on time since B&T had Mothers Day plans and Jason had to go to work. So we made a vow to make another stab at it in a couple weeks now that we know where it is. I’ll certainly update y’all if we ever actually make it there.

Unfortunately, as I found out yesterday from TBone, there was another hiker out on the same trail on that same day with a group looking for the same waterfall who will not have a chance to come back and look for it another day. This poor 19-year-old kid was separated from his group, and later fell into a ravine and died. How crazy is that? I’ll definitely be sticking with the group on future waterfall-finding expeditions.