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| Canyoneering | 2.96 Miles |
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| | Canyoneering | 2.96 Miles | 6 Hrs 51 Mns | | 0.43 mph |
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| | Intermediate Canyoneering - Difficult or dangerous; Tech Climb; rope reqd; descent anchor; exit technical; | | B - Up to light current; wading/swimming; possible wet/dry suit | | III - Normally requires most of a day |
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The drive from our Insomnia camp to Flintstones was a bit long. First we were busy chattering and listening to ‘Canyon’ music which likely caused the first missed turn. Then it didn’t help that on my phone I had the original route and the sneak route and I for some reason keep looking at the original route waypoint for the parking. Anyway, we finally made it to our starting point.
The bushwhack down to the entrance rappel was almost not noticeable it was over so quickly! We then rappelled about 90 ft into the canyon proper.
From there we started out without our wetsuits. The first rappel in Flintstone took us into a swimmer but it was refreshing so we didn’t need our wetsuits.
We continued without wetsuits until we got to the narrows. We put them on but never really need them. The narrows were beautiful.
At the end was a big section of Poison ivy. I kept trying to point it out but sometimes the message didn’t always get to everyone.
When we were done we ate our very brown celebratory muffins and other snacks. It was nice to hang and relax.
As we exited the canyon we inadvertently went up a ridge line we should not have. I had checked my GPS at one point and we were on route but probably steps away got off route and I didn’t check it for several hundred feet. By then we were way off route and decided to continue in case would could make our own sneak route. The way was brushy and steep. At one point it probably had a class 5 move or two. Carl and Tim got to a saddle where they could see where we were. Tim ask if we wanted the good news or the bad. I asked for the bad. He said that we had cliffed out and that our best option was to retreat a ways before getting into the gully we should have been the whole time. I don’t recall ever asking for the good news but he really needed to tell us. The good news was that we were all still friends.
Our attempted sneak route made the real sneak route seem relatively easy. Ha! It was still a very steep scramble up lose materials including logs that had just enough features to climb. Thankfully our team are a bunch of bad asses and were able to do our cliff-out climb plus the actual climb out without a break. |
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