Cravens Falls

RATING - 27.0

VR - 1.8 (Sm) HR - 5.0 SR - 18/20

TYPE OF APPROACH - Bushwhack

DIFFICULTY - Medium

LOCATION - Schreibers Meadows Area

TYPE - Horsetail

HEIGHT - 103'

WIDTH - 15'

GPS - N48 38.746 W121 43.635

ELEVATION - 915'

DIRECTIONS - Hike through Schreibers Meadows. You will cross the creek with the falls on it just after the big crossing of Rocky Creek. Scramble up the right side of the creek for about 1/3 of a mile to the falls. You'll have to scramble around some steep, loose hillsides to get a clear view, but it's nothing too awful.

Cravens Falls was a bit of a mystery. The falls were originally discovered and named by a group of Mazamas in the early 1900s and even listed by name on an early map of Baker, but the location was lost to time. I thought I had discovered the falls a few years ago (see Survey Point Falls), but that waterfall was a little shorter than the listed height so I wasn't sure. Thanks to a tip from Bryan Swan, I finally found the actual Cravens Falls (we're pretty sure) and it measured almost exactly what the old maps indicate.

While small in volume, Cravens Falls is a beauty, sliding down an andesitic cliff in back-to-back fan-shaped drops. The falls are surprisingly easy to get to for the Mt. Baker area as well.