Fantasy creek to Babel tower PICTURES!!!!

[ryan]

The trip from the Gingercake side, near BRT trailhead, down, across river, and out via babel tower.

We started near brushy ridge trail entrance, visiting henson before branching off toward midcliff ridge.  took a trail to the bottom of the Futuristic wall, And found the first of many small caves along Fantasy Creek.

Followed fantasy creek all the way to the river, crossed, and hiked out via babel tower trail in the end.
More in detail about the trip can be found in the Yahoogroups Message ######

Here are the pictures i took,  this is most all of them,  some have been removed but most are still in the raw list that i took them in.  some might be pointless.  i apologize,  but enjoy the ones that are of interest with the trip.











midcliff ridge trail.
babel tower
























futuristic wall



Can you spot the Climbing hardware in this picture?


look at the size of this roof in comparison..







first cave, underneath futuristic wall,  tiny waterfalls and stream runs through to a daylight opening at the end.
















the landmark for a cave entrance,  it is near here.

[ryan]

[ryan]

[Ken]

Very nice Ryan.  I'll look at them in depth from home.

[slowhike]

nice shots ryan!  makes me wish i were there.
i really hope i can explore some of the caves w/ you guys sometime.
i'm guessing that you know what kind of snake that was.   
...tim

[ryan]

we all thought it was a non poisonous brown snake.


is it something worse?

[slowhike]

i believe it's a northern water snake. 

[ryan]

in the flora and fauna section of this site,  theres a link to a snake identifier for our region, 
i really couldnt tell what it was using it, due to the generalizing nature of it.   

It didnt look poisonous,  but it could very well have been.

One of the guys on our group to his hiking pole to its head and picked it up steve irwin style,  then moved it off the trail so the others behind wouldnt come across it unexpectedly.


I have a good shot of two baby copperheads waiting near babel tower river

[wrightsphoto]

Nice photos Ryan!

[brad_sanz]

awesome; thanks!

[coastalhitman]

[coastalhitman]

In the picture where you ask if you can see the gear if you look at the wall it looks as if one part of it looks like a face...