Sholes Creek Falls

RATING - 54.0

VR - 6.0 (Med) HR - 6.0 SR - 18/20

TYPE OF APPROACH - Bushwhack

DIFFICULTY - Extremely Difficult

LOCATION - Wells Creek Road

TYPE - Tiered

HEIGHT - 165'

WIDTH - 15'

GPS - N48 51.273 W121 46.400

ELEVATION - 2921'

DIRECTIONS - Drive out FR 33 to the bridge over Bar Creek. Park before the bridge and head into the woods along the left side of Bar Creek. After a short distance in the woods, you will reach Sholes Creek. Begin climbing alongside the canyon and you should find a faint path upstream. This path will get you pretty close, but the final climb down to a clear view is very steep. If you take your time and move carefully you should be alright but a mistake here would be bad.

Sholes Creek Falls is a big impressive waterfall that is EXTREMELY tough to get a clear view of. A view of the falls through the trees can be had by just walking through the woods to the creek and then looking upstream (2nd picture from the left below). Unfortunately there's a little bend in the creek that must be navigated to get up close and this is the tough part. From where you reach the creek, it is a 1/4 mile trip up the creek to clear views of the falls. I recently made it into the falls by climbing sideways along the steep walls of the canyon. I eventually got a better view of the falls but it was pretty sketchy so I can't really recommend that route (or the creek route for that matter).