Upper Jumps

Location Description

207 photos

The group sorts gear and gets ready for the descent into...
Joel jumping, with Mike in the foreground.
Mike inspecting a pool he thinks he can avoid.
Mike tiptoeing around a pool.
John leading the way down a rock chute into a pool,...
Joel and our crazy group leader Michelle, who we had to...
John, pushing his backpack along the river. As it turns...
John, Mike and Michelle, contemplating the best place to jump.
Joel, taking the plunge, backpack on.
Mike, hanging out below one of the many water slides in...
John, right before jumping.
John, caught in mid-air.
Someone rappelling through a waterfall.
John and Joel, near the top of a jam in the river,...
John climbing a boulder to find a rappel bolt.
A water slide!
Mike going down the water slide.
Mike at the bottom of the water slide.
John, eating river.
John and Joel packing the rope.
John and Joel packing the rope.
Joel packing the rope.
Poorly positioned camera for group photo at the parking...
Eliah works through a bouldering problem while Tracy,...
Julia enjoys the 58 degree water early in the morning.
Eliah rides a water slide. Also pictured: Julia, Aditi,...
Monica leads the pack.
Ben (arms raised), Jill, Joel and Julia (foreground).
This was definitely the biggest group I had ever been a...
Colin. Tracy and Eliah in the background.
Aditi brought her Vibram Five Finger shoes, like the...
Ben spots a Lady Bug colony.
Monica on a big rock.
Colin, scouting a way down.
Monica.
Ben with his Safety First Chevron shirt. Ben works at Chevron.
Jill, Colin, Julia, Aditi, and Eliah working a small...
A person jumping in the water. This may have been me,...
Joel, in his classic seated position jump pose.
More splashes.
Tracy jumping in the water. Julia and Eliah look on from...
Julia tries a kung fu sort of pose.
Julia.
Aditi, mid-air.
Jill, bracing for impact.
John, jumping off the 25 foot jump.
Ahh! Water! Cold!
Colin, preemptively tapping his helmet to let us know he's ok.
Tracy, in her arms-up pose on the 25 foot jump.
Aditi after jumping 25 feet.
Ben, 25 feet off the deck.
John wearing Jesus boots.
Bracing for the splash. I think this has to be Joel.
Rupert the duck.
Colin with his duck.
Colin, much more serious. With Rupert the duck.
Ben.
Aditi.
Jill. Cold hands. Gloves are a really handy (ha!) thing to have.
John, in 6 mm of hooded wetsuit. Joel and I were...
John and Ben (Tracy in the background).
Ben hopping over some rocks.
John and Ben in a wild blackberry patch.
Mmmm.... delicious wild blackberries.
Ben's berries.
Ben with some blackberries.
Our lunch spot. Monica and Eliah warm up on the dry...
The rest of the crew joins.
View downstream from our lunch spot. When we woke up...
Everyone eating lunch.
Monica eating a soggy sandwich we bought at Port O Subs...
Monica and Aditi relaxing during lunch.
Monica and Aditi at lunch.
Taking naps, or warming up in the sun. I think a bunch...
Monica.
After lunch I lent Jill my neoprene gloves which I think...
Joel watching as Jill climbs up a boulder to enter a...
After disappearing into that hole in the last picture,...
Colin watching as Eliah rappels.
Some pretty hanging gardens near this first rappel.
Eliah at the bottom of the first rappel.
Aditi on the first rappel. Tracy and Colin watch from above.
Aditi and Eliah swimming at the bottom.
Aditi and Eliah find a rock to warm up on while the rest...
Aditi and Julia watch folks rappel down from the lunch rock.
Tracy swimming.
Eliah, Aditi and Julia.
Monica on rappel while Colin and Jill look on.
Monica swimming off the end of the rappel.
The water was surprisingly clear here. Lots of sunshine....
Monica swimming for land.
Jill on rappel. Ben, Joel and Colin watching from above.
Tracy, Jill, Eliah, Monica, Aditi, Julia and Colin (swimming).
Close up.
Waterfall at the bottom of the lunch rock.
Joel at the bottom of the next jump with John, Monica,...
Monica rappelling down while others look on.
Monica further down. This was a bit tricky not to swing...
Ben taking the plunge.
Eliah in mid air.
Aditi slipped on rappel and ended up in the falls.
John, Aditi, Monica and Tracy move down river through a...
Joel leads a bunch of others down a more riparian...
John about to hit the water. I think I am leaned back...
Tracy jumps in the water. Ben was photographing from...
Not sure who this was but it looks neat.
The whole crew minus photographer (Ben) at the top of...
Aditi, Julia, Eliah, Jill, Tracy and Joel. oel is...
Colin, stacking extra rope in the rope silo through a...
Joel, rigging to go on rappel.
Julia.
Jill, Aditi and Tracy watch Joel rappel.
Monica rappelling. Good view from up here: you can see a...
Colin checks over Tracy's rigging.
Tracy goes on rappel.
Tracy rappelling sans gloves.
Keeping balanced...
This is always awkward...
Aditi starting the second rappel.
Aditi rocking the Vibram Five Fingers.
Julia starting to rappel.
Julia looking very serious. She actually had a good time I think!
Really!
Joel gives a fireman's belay from the bottom.
Ben!
Folks swimming in the pool.
Colin, jumaring back up the stuck rope. Apparently the...
Colin, working his way back up. The way this works is...
Colin got the rope free, re-rigged the rappel,...
Ben jumping off something or other.
Joel, Tracy and Ben at the top of the next jump/rappel.
The sun disappeared behind a thick layer of clouds and...
Aditi on rappel.
Eliah, Monica and Joel.
Tracy jumping.
John and Monica.
At this point, the canyon started to get dramatic again....
The crowd waits at the top of the next big rappel -...
Monica and John, at the top of the rappel through the waterfall.
Tracy, staying afloat.
This is the view from the top of the rappel looking...
Here is Eliah, rappelling into the whirlpool.
Eliah, most of the way down.
Having rappelled through here a few times already, I...
Aditi rigs up and Joel double-checks her.
Aditi on rappel.
Aditi rappelling into the waterfall, wearing Vibram Five Fingers.
Monica, I think?
Jill with Rupert the Duck.
Julia on rappel.
Julia.
John getting ready to jump.
Tracy?
Tracy again?
Jill, about to go on rappel.
Jill on rappel.
Ben!
Ben, waving for the camera.
All the people downstream, in the pool that they end up...
Colin.
Joel, getting ready to jump.
Joel jumping.
Joel.
Joel swimming on his back and soaking up some of the...
This part of the canyon is characterized by long swims...
This next obstacle involves climbing on top of the 15 ft...
Monica carefully climbs up the boulder to reach the single bolt.
Monica, posing for a photo.
Clockwise from top left, Colin, Eliah, Ben, Julia, Tracy...
Big fat tarantula!
Zoomed in shot of Mr. Tarantula.
Next, Joel and I donned our neoprene hoods, snorkel and...
Fun to search, but alas the search and recovery effort...
Jill!
Julia! I think we're waiting while Colin and Monica test...
Golden hour of photography in Upper North Fork of the...
Julia, warming up out of the water.
Waiting at the last jump.
The crew at the bottom of the last jump.
Julia, jumping.
Here is a water slide that leads us out of the last of...
John jumping off the last jump.
Ben jumping.
Aditi on a water slide!
Waiting in line for the water slide.
Aditi, after the water slide.
Eliah running the water slide. Joel at the left.
Monica.
Monica water sliding!
Joel.
Beautiful Sierra granite.
John and Monica at the end of the technical section.
D'oh! Keep getting water on the lens.
On one of the last few swims before the exit.
A little bit better color in this one.
Monica, finally at the exit.
The crew at the end of Upper Jumps / beginning of Lower Jumps.
Aditi's Five Finger tan line.
Ben posing with PG&E's release of liability sign.
Signs. Endless entertainment for shotgun enthusiasts everywhere.
John, after the hike back to the road.
John and Ben.
Unfortunately Ben's dry bag was not so dry.
So, the worker bees headed back that night, and Joel and...
Hmm, I suppose I'm probably NOT getting enough...
Mmmm... i10805.TXT.
Joel and I spent the morning reading guide books trying...