Sequoia National Forest

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Seven Teacups

86 photos

Catherine at our Saturday night camp spot. Jay,...
Joel, Monica and Catherine suit up after eating lunch at...
Catherine, ready for action at the start of the canyon.
This place was such a contrast to yesterday: clean but...
Monica water sliding between two pools.
Monica, on a slightly bigger slide. This place was like...
Catherine, sliding down another cascade.
Monica, in upper Seven Teacups.
Catherine negotiates a tight slot followed by a downed...
Joel and Catherine paddle down river.
Monica floating along.
Catherine and John floating down Dry Meadow Creek.
John, all smiles for the day.
First optional jump. We had the choice of jumping off...
Here starts Seven Teacups proper. The canyon gets its...
Joel slides into the first teacup. Monica and Catherine watch.
Catherine and Monica watch Joel slide into the first...
Catherine, taking an optional jump into the second...
Joel power slides down from the second to the third...
Sometimes I don't always get the desired effect from my...
Monica, giving us her scared pose.
Monica preemptively holding her nose as she slides into...
Catherine, on rappel, kneeling on the lip of the falls...
Catherine on rappel into the fourth teacup. This one...
Monica hip-sliding down a bumpy mossy cascade with some...
Catherine and Monica warm themselves like seabirds on a...
Catherine, photographing on rappel takes this shot of...
Catherine takes a shot from, apparently, inside a...
Monica rappelling between the fourth and fifth teacup. ...
Monica, inside a waterfall. John looks from above.
Somewhere in there is a purple helmet. Monica, almost...
The rest of the teacups in front of us. I'm not sure at...
Monica swims across the 5th teacup while Joel sorts the...
John, ready for the rappel through the waterfall.
John, lowering himself into the falls.
Keep your head down!
John, inside the waterfall.
John, almost at the bottom.
John, at the end of the rappel. I decided to just stay...
John, ferrying himself across the 5th teacup.
John and Joel get ready to send John down the next...
John goes over the falls.
Catherine, jumping off the falls into Teacup #6. There...
Monica checking out the drop into Teacup #7.
Monica jumps into Teacup #7 while John looks on.
John and Joel rig the rope for the big 60 foot rap into...
Monica, warming up in the sun.
Catherine rappelling into the swirling whirlpool of death.
The Swirling Whirlpool of Death is a bit of a misnomer:...
Catherine, looking back up the falls from the Swirling...
Monica rappelling into the Swirling Whirlpool of Death.
Monica standing in the Swirling Whirlpool of Death.
Joel, making a face appropriate for the Swirling...
The 60 foot waterfall with the SWoD at the bottom.
John and Joel stow the rope after the 60 foot rappel.
Joel, swimming down canyon. At this point, we are past...
Joel at the top of the fourth rappel.
John at the top of the 5th rappel. Monica gets ready to rappel.
The canyon ahead. The wall in the background (with...
Catherine, on rappel, snaps a shot of John and Monica at...
Monica, nearing the end of the 5th rappel which briefly...
Catherine on rappel number six. This was a fun rappel...
Joel, Catherine and Monica at the base of the final and...
Catherine doing the power slide, with God beams coming...
Falls feeding this final major pool before the...
John, having fun doing laps on the dry slide.
Catherine, on the seventh and final rappel.
Disappearing into the shadows...
Monica on the last rappel.
This last rappel was a little tricky because it required...
Monica swimming out through the last of the passageways...
Monica, swimming along.
Catherine, sitting on the final lip before the Kern River.
John, standing on a sand bar in the Kern River. Last...
Catherine, getting ready to slide down the last slide in...
Joel on the last water slide. Sadly, Monica, the...
Joel turning right at a critical moment, to avoid...
Catherine, standing in the Kern River.
John and Catherine, at the end of the Seven Teacups.
Team shot: Catherine, Monica, Joel and John.
The last water slide, and lower Dry Meadow Creek gorge from afar.
The team hikes out along the well-maintained NFS trail...
Monica, at the Johnsondale Bridge, where our car shuttle...
A blurry shot, but included for Catherine's bridge...
Catherine and Joel on the Johnsondale Bridge.
Back at the upper trailhead: sorting gear, packing the...