Can you climb this? The entire climb to the base of Mooney Falls in Havasupai
I see this question online a lot. People are going to Havasupai and they hear the climb to the base of Mooney Falls is terrifying. Why would you care if you're not sure? Because it's REALLY hard to get permits to Havasupai, so if you're lucky enough to get them, you want to see everything you can see. Yes, you can get to 50 Foot Falls, Little Navajo Falls and Havasu Falls without braving the climb to the base of Mooney Falls. But if you want to see Mooney Falls from the bottom, hike down to Beaver Falls or even to the Confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you have to make this climb. So if you can't do it, you miss out on a lot of what there is to see at Havasupai.
So people want to know if they can make it. But it's hard to answer that question. Everyone has different climbing abilities and tolerances for risk. The best way to answer this question, is to see it for yourself. So I filmed it and made this video.
Can you make the climb to the bottom of Mooney Falls? I don't know. But now you can see for yourself.
Oh, and if you're wondering if I just didn't talk to the dude who followed me, I did. I spliced together footage from two separate descents. He and I climbed to the top of the ladder section and he decided to turn around and not attempt it. So I didn't just abandon the poor guy and/or just not talk to him the whole time! Just figured that he might not want our discussion on video and that you probably didn't want to listen to us talk the whole time.
30 сен 2024
