Above, Peter balances carefully as he works his way across a tangle of downed trees. The slide is so wide that it covered a couple of the sluices that come down from the ridge above. The debris and the undergrowth above it is so dense that it's difficult to know which route up is the right one. The wrong one runs into a little rocky cascade below the grassy area at the top of the ridge. That's a very difficult climb over loose, wet, and muddy stone and mud, with few hand or foot holds. Dry Sluice is the ravine that is furthest to the west when you exit the slide.

Below: Peter works through the rhododendron below the slide. At that point, Dry Sluice is a steep, dark tunnel that winds and jumps up the mountainside.