Hike to Hidden Falls, Jun 14th

This is one of the best hikes I’ve done so far. I found the information on this area by accident and decided to take a group there. I knew from the beginning it was going to be a long and hard hike with a lot of bushwhacking. The reason is that trails do not appear in any map. Not only that, some of the falls in the area, don’t appear in maps or satellite images either. The idea was to do a full loop towards hidden falls then go around the power lines and descend on Archer Mountain. Originally I had planned to go see Cable Falls that doesn’t appear in maps either but that would have taken much longer. Getting to the trailhead was easy and we were greeted by a deer close by. After getting thru a portion of the forest road and enjoying the views of the valley and the tall wall with the cross, we went down to a river and then started climbing up on the other side. All this area was a very dense forest making it very difficult to pass. A bit later we found a wall of loose rocks that had to climb and then continue on a section on our hands and knees. Eventually we got to a really nice view point. From there we headed north towards the power lines and found an old logging road that took us there. The views from up there were truly amazing, but at that point we still had a bit to go to reach hidden falls. When we got there we couldn’t see much but could hear the fall right in front of us. After going around we found the crack between the rocks were the fall is. This was truly unbelievable. The fall itself is probably 100’ but you can’t see the bottom. Not only that, you can go down the crack and get really close to it. AS you’ll see in the photos, sunshine was shinning thru illuminating the fall while we were there. From there we continued on the service road for a while until we had to veer of towards the river. We did a bit of bushwhacking until we found the edge of the canyon. A bit after that we got a nice view of Archer falls. This fall was also amazing falling over 200’ down to the valley. There’s the possibility to go down to the base of this fall, but that takes a bit of skill and time. From there we continued and eventually found the ridge trail that took us down to a huge rock formation right on top of the cross. After enjoying the views and resting for a bit, we continued on the trail that descended quite abruptly back to the car. Truly an amazing hike that left some unexplored areas for future hikes.