Slip And Slide Falls

Most commonly referred to as "The Super Slides" by the few kayakers who run this section of the Cispus River, Slip and Slide Falls is a long string of shallow bedrock slides pitched somewhere between 20 and 35 degrees that occur along a quarter-mile stretch of the Cispus River between Nannie and Walupt Creeks. The total drop of the slides is in the order of about 120 feet, but because the river is very twisty in this area, no two parts can be seen together. The only clear views of the falls are from within the canyon itself and this is at the mercy of serious foreshortening due to the long run and shallow pitch of the slides. I was able to wade and bushwhack upstream from Walupt Creek Falls - very gingerly, I might add - to the bottom of the largest of the slides, which drops about 30 vertical feet in about 120 feet of run. The problem with measuring the slides is the whole river in this canyon is literally one long bedrock slide of varying steepness, so it gets into objectivity rather deeply.