Sespe Creek

The last quarter-mile or so of Sespe before the canyon mouth is the most interesting. In this section, known as 'Devil's Gate,' enormous piles of boulders largely prevent boating and turn the trip into a caving adventure with kayaks. The largest free-standing boulders I have ever seen were here; they dwarf those found in Yosemite Valley. As Charles Foster puts it on his Sespe Creek page, 'these are the sequoias of the boulder world.'

Richard