Palomo
verified
Ungraded
Low flood risk
Bajos del Toro, Alajuela
Bajos del Toro ravine built around a very vertical 100 m waterfall taken in four rappels, then three more through forest down to the Rio Toro.
The rigging on the big fall is the detail worth knowing: it was installed to keep parties out of the rockfall line, so follow the existing anchors rather than improvising a plumb line. Description on ropewiki is a machine translation from UnoDeAventuras and reads roughly in places. First descent 25 April 2018 by Edu Gomez and Javito Rodriguez.
Logistics
| Manager | Private land |
|---|---|
| Permit | No permit published. The route crosses private property and the source asks only that it be respected. No fee, contact, or government requirement is named. |
| Distance | ~0.3 canyon (500 m); optional 2.5 km shuttle |
| Elevation | ~660 ft of descent |
| Time | ~4 hr (15 min approach, 2.5 hr descent, 1 hr exit) |
| Technical | Basalt ravine between Alto del Palomo and Bajo del Toro. 7 rappels, longest 45 m; no ACA grade published. The centrepiece is one of the big waterfalls of the area, about 100 m and very vertical, split into four rappels with a wide shelf at midheight. That fall has been rigged deliberately so that possible rockfall is avoided. Three more rappels follow through forest until the creek feeds a tributary of the Rio Toro and shortly after the Toro itself, with the return alongside the riverbed. |
| Season | Dec-Apr |
| Flood risk | Not published by the source. The descent drops into a tributary of the Rio Toro and the return follows the riverbed, so rising water would compromise the walk out as well as the rappels. |
| Coordinates | 10.19732, -84.32741 |