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| no partners | | Continuing my fall of the Grand Canyon with my first trip to the Tuckup area. Drove in to the TH on Friday night. Still saw quite a bit of snow. it was a pretty chilly night. Got a 9 am start the next morning for the long trek to the Hades Knoll drop in. Gorgeous hike, especially with the snow on the rim. The Tuckup trail to the dropin was prety hit or miss - but became more evident the closer to Hades Knoll we got. found camp on a gorgeous Esplanade bench .5 miles from the drop in. We carried water for the night, but there were potholes in the Esplanade. We would see lots of water the rest of the trip.
Day 2: Hades Knoll. Gorgeous canyon. Think we ended up doing 4 raps and a few interesting downclimbs. near the end, Shelley decided to lower her pack down a rappel to save time. She thought it was dry at the bottom but it wasn't. Her puffy, sleeping bag etc were soaked. due to this, we decided to stay near the conflunce to start drying gear while the rest of the group hiked further up canyon near where you leave the canyon at a redwall break for the approach to Rocky Point canyon. We found some friendly Muav ledges to camp on and luckily it was warmer this night. Her sleeping bag dried out pretty quickly so all was good. the rest of her clothes dried overnight
Day3 - got up early and hiked up to the group and finished the approach to Rocky Point. When we were still above it we noticed the pools and all thought we're getting wet. The temps were still pretty coool. Most everyone left wetsuits at the cars. I left my shorty in my pack and I was very thankful. getting dressed at the drop in felt coooold. Luckily the deepest water we ran into was waist deep - but we did have multiple wades. The technical part was short but really pretty. Soon we were back into the sun at Tuckup. Continued on to Cottonwood - our plan was to camp near the spring. Cottonwood was fun. Lots of easy scrambling - one sorta sketchy bypass at a couple of pouroffs was the only tricky part. We filled up on water near the spring and camped out on a Esplanade bench.
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