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| Canyoneering | 2.98 Miles |
477 AEG |
| | Canyoneering | 2.98 Miles | 6 Hrs 28 Mns | | 0.46 mph |
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| no partners | | Where to start? First, a beautiful, raw, powerful canyon on a sunny, 80 degree day with two good friends, with a Sauce's pizza and beer on the way home (and on my birthday). Hard to top.
This deceptively short and low aeg hike/rapel outing is a real charge. My first attempt at canyoneering. There are three (really 4 since the middle one is actually a double drop) serious rapels along the way, the last ending in a pool unless you have a long reach. You can see the location of the three drops if you look for clusters of track points on my gps track. Climbing out to the 7 Cataracts Vista is something I hope I never have to do again, especially with a wet 60 m rope.
My hat's off to Mrbadbern and his group for doing this when the water was really flowing in Sept. It was hard enough with just a trickle. Wet slickrock is something else. I can't imagine what it would be like after the monsoons.
There are solid bolts at the top of each rapel, two sets (past the rock to the right) on the middle one. There are good other, natural anchor options if you choose. We contributed a couple more runners at two points and a bale biner at one location. Some of the bolts need some rated screw ovals.
I wouldn't recommend doing this without an experienced climber along. Luckily we had Mike. Also, the last drop is about 150 feet, so be prepared with enough rope(s). We managed with one 60 m and one 30 m, and always used double rope, although we had to tie the two together for the last rapel. |
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