The Alder Creek Slide is a famous natural water slide in the heart of Sequoia National Forest. We also stumbled upon a lesser known, but equally impressive area known as the Dry Meadow Creek Tubs. To top it off, we hit the pristine, lush waterfall Nobe Young Creek Falls and finished the day at Dome Rock, overlooking the Sequoia Valley.
We're in the Sequoia National Forest today in search of natural water slides, waterfalls, and adventure.
So we're looking for what they call the Alder Creek Slides right now.
It's a natural water slide.
They call this creek here Dry Meadow Creek.
This whole little canyon here is filled with slick rock pools, awesome cliff jump spots, and we're definitely going to check those out.
Wow, the mosquitoes are thick as hell.
We brought some bug repellent, but it is not working that great.
Looks like we might have been in the wrong area.
Those teacups were cool, and I'm definitely going to go check those out and check those pools out and maybe cliff jump over there.
I think we're on the right path across the street from where we parked.
There's a fire road, and I think that's where the slides that we're looking for are.
Now we're going back to this area we scoped out before, these awesome teacups.
These smooth granite pools and little baby cliffs.
Do a little cliff jump and check out the teacups.
We're right near the Seven Teacups, which is a popular canyoneering spot.
You can do some slides at the Seven Teacups.
You need to wet repel them, though.
I heard the flow is too high to do the Seven Teacups right now,
so we're going to check out these little baby teacups across from this awesome little natural slide.
You can park in the same parking area, and they're just across the street from each other.
These teacups are absolutely amazing.
It's like a natural water park.
Forget a slide. The slide was cool.
This is like a natural water park.
Seven little teacups.
A couple mini cliff jump spots, 10, 15, 20 feet.
A couple little baby slides.
That whirlpool, vortex pool.
Some of the rocks in some spots are so slippery,
you can just sit with a wet bathing suit on them and turn that rock into a slide.
Man, this place is so absolutely gorgeous.
I don't know if it gets enough love.
I haven't heard anybody talking about it.
Everyone's always talking about that other slide that we went to first.
These teacups are so beautiful and amazing.
The water is crystal clear.
Nobody here.
I feel so grateful to be able to enjoy this stuff and to share this stuff with you guys,
and I really hope this inspires you to find your own cool stuff.
So the next stop on this adventure is Knob Creek Falls.
I'm trying to find this waterfall I know nothing about.
I saw a couple old pictures of it, and I think I found the trailhead.
But it is really hot today.
It was 105 when we left those teacups.
The parking lot was absolutely jam-packed with a bunch of people going to that slide that we went to.
Nobody was going to those teacups, which is pretty cool.
Found that off-the-beaten-track spot.
So Knob Yonge Falls.
My wife is in the car. She's overheated.
I was in that icy cold water most of the time, and she was lying on the shore,
and I think she got a little touch of heat exhaustion.
So I got a bag of ice.
Iced down her groin. Iced down the back of her neck, her armpits.
Got her some Gatorade and water, and she's going to recover.
She's in the car with the air conditioning on.
So I'm off to explore this Knob Yonge Creek Falls myself.
It's less than half a mile one way from the trailhead, and we'll check it out.
Well, I went off-trail a little bit, and I got to the top of the falls.
So I'm going to cut back across this ledge here, back that way.
Should meet up with the trail.
Should be able to take me to the bottom of the falls over there.
Not really a good shot from the top.
It's a pretty sweet, pretty high fall, so can't wait to get to the bottom and check it out and show you guys.
There's this awesome little cave area right here under the falls.
So sweet.
I'm going to try and get a little closer.
What a great day.
What a great adventure today.
We hit off the world-famous Alder Creek Natural Waterslide.
We hit the—I always call them teacups.
They actually call that spot we were in, the little pools, the tubs,
because there's another area called the Seven Teacups here in the Sequoia National Forest.
So the part we were in today, the tubs, awesome.
Hit off that Nobjong Creek.
Awesome, awesome, amazing, beautiful waterfall.
And now we're wrapping it up here with a quick little jaunt up to Dome Rock
with epic views of the valley and all of Sequoia National Forest.
Hope this inspires you to get out there, do your own thing, find your own adventure.
I just want to share all this natural beauty with you guys because this is our public land.
This is our public land.
There's elements in the government right now that want to take this away from us
and turn it over to big corporations and allow them to drill for oil
and clear-cut the forest and frack for natural gas.
And we have to stand up as a people and let your congressman know, your senator know,
we're not going to stand for this. This is our public land.
This was set aside to preserve for generations to come.
And if you want to get out there and enjoy this beauty, you've got to speak your peace
and let your representatives know.
Hope you enjoyed this video. Get out there, find your own adventure.
And as always, be infamous.
Infamous.
