South Branch of Feather River

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165 photos

Yang getting in the water at the start. This river had a...
Vinnie tosses Joel one of our ropes.
Yang and Monica ready for action.
Yang in the river.
Yang on a water slide.
The team moves over some slippery obstacles near the start.
Vinnie, navigating down over some slippery rocks.
Joel, Monica, and Yang.
The volume of water in this river was probably several...
Vinnie, staying upright on a slippery tree log.
Vinnie, arms out for balance or to strike a pose?
The diving board.Vinnie and Yang, John in the background.
Yang rappels down.
Joel watches Vinnie get ready to jump off the diving board.
Vinnie, in mid-air.
John, getting ready to jump.
John, in mid-air.
Vinnie, warming up at lunch.
Joel spotting Yang as he rappels down the first obstacle...
Vinnie, with the Monica, Yang and Joel below.
A short water slide.
Monica on a water slide.
Vinnie also on a water slide.
Vinnie, on a second water slide.
Monica.
Monica on a water slide, Yang in the foreground.
Yang, the canyoneer / photographer.
Monica watching Vinnie slide down.
Yang, caught up in the rapids.
Yang, through the rapids...
Vinnie in the current.
Joel standing on shore as Yang and Monica get out of the water.
Vinnie crossing the South Branch of the Feather River on a log.
Joel takes the "Joel way" across the river while Monica...
Joel crossing a log.
Monica crosses on the log as well.
Monica crossing the river on a log.
Yang crossing the river.
Yang and Joel try an advanced water slide.
Yang, going for a ride.
Joel.
Joel, going over a small drop.
Navigating around some obstacles.
Vinnie, and an inviting pool below.
Monica, sliding into a pool.
Swimming in a pool at the bottom of a slide.
Vinnie, I think.
Vinnie, probably not about to slide down that face.
Vinnie, gesturing.
Pretty waterfall.
The waterfalls started to get higher and more...
Yang, on his way down.
Yang, rappelling next to the falls.
Yang, with his video helmet cam.
Monica, rappelling next to the falls.
Vinnie, jumping down the last section of the falls.
Vinnie, climbing back out of the water.
Joel, jumping in the water.
Another big falls.
John, setting up the rappel.
John, rigging a rappel next to a long waterfall.
Big waterfall.
Monica on rappel.
Monica on rappel from a distance.
Almost at the bottom.
Our mystery photographer, looking over the abyss, at...
Yang on rappel.
Almost at the bottom.
View of the falls from the rappel route.
At the next major drop.
Joel on rappel, sliding on his hip to prevent slipping.
Yang on rappel.
Yang sliding on his hip on rappel.
Climbing out of the water on giant floating logs. The...
Looking ahead to an island in the middle of the river...
Vinnie on rappel.
Vinnie, finishing out the rappelling for the day. We...
Yang and Vinnie relaxing at camp.
Eating dinner at camp. Everyone changed into their dry...
A less candid dinner shot.
Eating dinner around our campfire.
Yang by firelight.
Joel, Vinnie and Yang around the campfire.
Monday morning in camp: Vinnie and Joel, slightly more...
Yang at breakfast.
Reading the beta from the route to figure out where we...
Yang and Vinnie eating breakfast.
Monica, ready for action.
Joel, helping to rig the first rappel.
Vinnie and Yang rigging the first rappel on Monday.
Yang and Monica.
Yang, rappelling into the shade.
Vinnie, perched on a rock.
Monica on rappel first thing in the morning. Look at how...
Vinnie, same drill.
And Joel.
And Monica on #2.
Yang on rappel #2.
So much greenery growing in the mist of the falls.
Very difficult to photograph straight into the sunlight!
A little better from the side.
Vinnie on rappel.
Self portrait on the Feather River.
Yang, at the bottom of a rappel, on treacherously...
Joel.
Warming back up in the sun after a lot of cold water in...
View into the gorge below.
Yang (and Joel in the background).
Monica and Joel.
Vinnie warming up.
Monica at the start of a 150+ foot rappel.
Nearing the end.
And into the washing machine at the bottom.
Swimming out.
The crew left above.
Monica, warming back up.
Yang about to go for a ride.
Turns out it actually wasn't that deep.
Wading to shore.
Two potatoes left on the top of the hill.
Joel on rappel.
Vinnie staying cool as the day heats up.
Joel in his sandals.
Monica, stepping from stone to stone.
The canyon starts to get more mellow.
Why walk when you can float?
Why swim when you can walk?
Vinnie slashing Joel at the bottom of a slide.
Yang, staying dry.
The river became more mellow as we worked our way downstream.
Monica.
Circumventing some obstacles.
Joel and Yang had another method.
Joel swimming with a backpack.
Yang, in mid-air leap.
John, climbing out of the river after a jump.
Yang, jumping into the river.
Joel, jumping in the river.
At the base of our little jump.
Yang performing one of the final rappels.
Joel watching from below.
Monica.
Monica looking over her shoulder.
Almost to the bottom.
Vinnie, on rappel.
Vinnie, in mid air leap, going for the full belly flop.
John getting ready for a jump.
John in mid-air leap.
The sun starts to get low. This was a long two-day trip!
Joel taking a ride on a slide.
Monica sliding into a pool.
Vinnie and Yang.
Monica and Joel.
A snake!
Some swim while others walk.
The team negotiating some obstacles.
Joel helping Yang.
Figuring out how to get across the river.
Finally at the end! We knew we had returned to...
Monica floating around.
Vinnie jumping off a rope swing.
Monica collecting the inner tubes.
Joel swinging off the rope swing.
Monica and her inner tubes.
Group photo at the lower trailhead parking lot. We had a...