Highest drop 16m
Public Access
3 hrs
Probably the best bang for your buck trip in the region. The lower section of Chandler Stream is quite short but of high quality: continuous, beautiful and enclosed. Reminiscent of Haast Past canyons.
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The canyon is all good to go. Some big rocks have moved due to last big flood. The jumps are still all good but needs to be precise on the landing, please check the pools before jumping.
The logs on R5 are gone.
beautiful but cold! water was pretty pushy. I think we missed a bunch of anchors but the ones we found were all good. We linked R2 with R3, then came off and jumped the last few meters to avoid the recirculating current at the bottom of the falls. We also downclimbed and slid a few of the shorter drops. The final rap looked pretty gnarly at this flow so we took the escape on the fixed red line tied to a root out left.