Yeah, that's quite a bit of water. Descending Kolob at this water level is obviously not gonna happen.

Nick enjoying the roaring stream and waterfall.

Poking the nose downcanyon, after the "garden", the canyon narrows up...

... and that's as far as we got. You'd have to rappel in the flow, downclimb in the flow, or jump down there about 20 feet. Not gonna happen!

We had hung a rope off a tree and into the garden. So nothing left to do other than JUG out! A pain, but a brief pain.

The hike down, through the dew-heavy, big-tree woods was marvelous. The hike back up - with heavy packs, the sun beating down fiercely - was less so. I paused to shoot a couple of flowers found along the way. The first was: Sticky Geranium - Geranium viscosissimum which is indeed kinda sticky as expected, and smaller than the Geranium I saw at Wildcat Trailhead, which I realized is the Wild Purple Geranium - G. caespitosum.

Blue Columbine aka Colorado Columbine - Aquilegia coerulea / Buttercup family - Ranunculaceae, of which, quite a few around Lava Point are fully white, rather than blue and white.

And finally, right close to the West Rim Trailhead, and exactly one specimen apparent: Common Chicory - Cichorium intybus / Aster Family - Asteraceae which was brought to the USA from Europe in colonial times. Might nice looking anthers, I must say!