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We linked up with an experience canyoneer who was also here for the ACA Rendezvous and he talked us into waking up super early for a FULL run thru Oak Creek. 
The Ouray Canyoning book makes it seem like doing all three at once would be utter madness but it turned out to be quite doable and very enjoyable. 
We weren't quite acclimated yet, so the 1600ft climb up to near 10k feet was a bit challenging but we eventually made it to the upper drop-in. 
Now I've done canyons with waterfall rappels before but this canyon was insane in the amount of them we'd be doing and all the wet & chossy downclimbing. 
Such an amazing canyon nonetheless and it was only going to get better as the day went by... 
average hiking speed 0.65 mph
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