Rock Creek to Kern Canyon
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:47 pm
Has anyone hiked off-trail down Rock Creek, dropping into the Kern River Canyon from the east, just to the north of the Kern Hot Spring? Would be going off trail from around the Rock Creek Ranger Station on the PCT just SE of Mt. Guyot.
My son and I have done the Big Arroyo into the Kern Canyon from the west side, between Rattlesnake Creek to the south and the High Sierra Trail to the north, which was challenging but doable. (Actually my son, 20 at the time, had no problems, but I don't have the rock hopping nimbleness I once had). Rock Creek looks a bit steeper than Big Arroyo.
My son and I have done the Big Arroyo into the Kern Canyon from the west side, between Rattlesnake Creek to the south and the High Sierra Trail to the north, which was challenging but doable. (Actually my son, 20 at the time, had no problems, but I don't have the rock hopping nimbleness I once had). Rock Creek looks a bit steeper than Big Arroyo.