Ross
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Last Fall I managed to cram in a number of canyons on my wishlist during about 2 weeks of daily all-day hikes when we were blessed with no rain forecasts.
They were in the Springdale to Page region.
All lived up to expectations and the pictures really tell the story of how beautiful they all are, so there's not a lot to say about them individually.
Our desire to push every one to see as much as possible saw us hiking in the dark to reach the car on probably 5 occasions - and even one rappel in the dark.
Usually GPS and some sense of direction came to the rescue, although once the swinging GPS needle somehow saw me hit a road 3 miles south of our car at night. .
There was a lot of water and thick mud, so unfortUnately I didn't get to capture these beautiful scenes on my quality camera. Just as well as by the end dirt seized up the lens on the compact landing me a $100 repair bill back in the UK. But these were worth it.
Most days we saw noone, and only one day did we see more than 5 even though most of these are not really technical so I'm not sure if they earn the right to go on a canyoneering forum. But hey, they're canyons, there was some 2 person pushing, pulling, captures...and its winter, so apart from the hardiest few people are posting trip reports at the moment.
We can't really add much beta info except in ParunuweAp a recent storm had wiped out the boulder jam falls between Poverty and Fat Man's, so we had to wade chest high around the edge of a pool to the left going upriver, which didn't please our bigger guys carrying gear as they started sinking deeper in the quicksand.
Rather than lots of individual trip reports I've thrown the lot together in one mix with a few non-canyon shots for variety. But even trying to narrow it down to my favourite photos produced 50, so I'm going to split it into a part 1 and part 2.
They were in the Springdale to Page region.
All lived up to expectations and the pictures really tell the story of how beautiful they all are, so there's not a lot to say about them individually.
Our desire to push every one to see as much as possible saw us hiking in the dark to reach the car on probably 5 occasions - and even one rappel in the dark.
Usually GPS and some sense of direction came to the rescue, although once the swinging GPS needle somehow saw me hit a road 3 miles south of our car at night. .
There was a lot of water and thick mud, so unfortUnately I didn't get to capture these beautiful scenes on my quality camera. Just as well as by the end dirt seized up the lens on the compact landing me a $100 repair bill back in the UK. But these were worth it.
Most days we saw noone, and only one day did we see more than 5 even though most of these are not really technical so I'm not sure if they earn the right to go on a canyoneering forum. But hey, they're canyons, there was some 2 person pushing, pulling, captures...and its winter, so apart from the hardiest few people are posting trip reports at the moment.
We can't really add much beta info except in ParunuweAp a recent storm had wiped out the boulder jam falls between Poverty and Fat Man's, so we had to wade chest high around the edge of a pool to the left going upriver, which didn't please our bigger guys carrying gear as they started sinking deeper in the quicksand.
Rather than lots of individual trip reports I've thrown the lot together in one mix with a few non-canyon shots for variety. But even trying to narrow it down to my favourite photos produced 50, so I'm going to split it into a part 1 and part 2.
