You park along the freeway where a dirt road leads up into the forest just past milepost 53. Then, we followed the road passed a junction w/ the old wagon road and stayed left at a junction just passed there, under the powerlines. this road continues up and around a few towers then heads thru the woods. We followed this route until a small path was visible heading down to the creek bed, which we took.
once at the creek you bushwhack about ten minutes up to the falls. I'll post some more pictures of the creek when i am done editing, but for now here is the falls:
from here we could faintly see the big falls(camp benson) above. we zigzaged across the creek a few times up and around big huge boulders and up a nice steep fern covered slope, and eventually made it to the base of Camp Benson Falls. While I photographed the waterfall my hiking partner scouted a way out up the top of the canyon to the left. here is a few pictures:
- halfway up the slope to the left
great day exploring, and i havent had as much fun as that in quite a while!!
I agree with Bryan, Summit Creek looks surprisingly good with low water. I need to get back to Lindsay Creek next spring in a "normal" year -- we got pounded last June with the runoff from the high snowpack. I wasn't able to shoot any images from the perspective that you shot, and instead, focused on the slope to the west.
