Kannaraville Canyon

On Monday, June 16, we took our guests, Paul and Jane and kids, and hiked Kannaraville Canyon. It was lots of fun. The town and adjacent canyon are just a half hour drive up the freeway from here, the last few miles over a dirt road up to the mouth of the canyon. This gorgeous little slot canyon is an easy hike, just a couple of miles each way, and is a great intro to slot canyons. You mostly walk along a path that crosses the creek several times. Once in the canyon itself you have to scale a slippery log to continue on the upper half of the hike. At the end of the hike you have to climb a rope ladder in the falling water to get up to the highest level before leaving the slot. Between the two little climbs there is a natural pool that you can slide into on the wet slippery sandstone. Little cousin Sarah said that it was “the funnest thing ever – like a water park, but better!” Aunt Jane admitted that she was a "little freaked out" by having to climb the first waterfall via the old slippery, squeaky log – but she (and all the rest of us) went up and down without a hitch and declared the trip a success. I’m attaching a photo of our most intrepid hikers who even braved the wet rope ladder and scaled the last waterfall. The only problem with the day was that baby Becky Lou came out with Les’s cough and cold (which Les got from me), just in time for them to head off to Disneyland on Tuesday morning.