
Eaton Canyon Falls Trail
Easy canyon trail leading to a thirty to forty foot waterfall tumbling into a shaded pool.
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This guide to the Eaton Canyon Falls Trail in Los Angeles's San Gabriel foothills follows the informal path hikers have worn above the main pool in search of a second, hidden waterfall, and the toll it has taken, including the 2013 death of seventeen-year-old Esther Suen. It traces the rescues rangers have carried out on the loose shale slope and the warnings that a route so many treat as safe truly is not. John Muir called the falls in front of you a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, when he passed through in 1877.
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