Howells Outdoors
Adventure is my middle name...actually it's Keith.
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Every time I do this canyon I feel like Mother Nature is calling me overweight…
…Oh well, a place as special as this is worth the struggle.
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We couldn’t have possibly picked a hotter time to go through the technical canyon called Fat Man’s Misery near Zion National Park — a high in Springdale of 105 fahrenheit. It was crazy hot!
We chose to take attack the canyon later in the day to have it cool off by the time we started the hike back. I think that was a great plan. Had we started early or at a pretty regular time we would’ve been hiking that long uphill track back in the heat of the day.
It was a nice cool hike back in the sunset and the last stretch in the dark.
As we started up the canyon on the westside of Checkerboard Mesa in Zion, we felt the summer temperature of southern Utah bearing down on us. So much so that Chelsea started to feel nauseous from the exposure.
We stopped and sat in the sun for awhile and poured cold water on her head and fanned her off. When she was feeling better she decided to turn back to the car and pass on doing the canyon.
Excellent Choice!
We sweated to death hiking into Misery. It was so hot; stupid hot is the only way to describe it.
For us to stay safe in the heat we took rest under most of the large Ponderosa Pines and drank a lot of water. We brought a filter with us to refill in the east fork of the Virgin River.
I think all of us drank something like 3 or 4 liters before reaching the end of Misery and then refilled and drank all that again on the hike out.
This canyon is awesome though. It was worth the sweat, the heat, the blood, the pain and anguish. I love it down there! I’ll let the photos do the talking about the canyon:
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…Oh well, a place as special as this is worth the struggle.
This was originally posted on www.howellsoutdoors.com.
We couldn’t have possibly picked a hotter time to go through the technical canyon called Fat Man’s Misery near Zion National Park — a high in Springdale of 105 fahrenheit. It was crazy hot!
We chose to take attack the canyon later in the day to have it cool off by the time we started the hike back. I think that was a great plan. Had we started early or at a pretty regular time we would’ve been hiking that long uphill track back in the heat of the day.
It was a nice cool hike back in the sunset and the last stretch in the dark.
As we started up the canyon on the westside of Checkerboard Mesa in Zion, we felt the summer temperature of southern Utah bearing down on us. So much so that Chelsea started to feel nauseous from the exposure.
We stopped and sat in the sun for awhile and poured cold water on her head and fanned her off. When she was feeling better she decided to turn back to the car and pass on doing the canyon.
Excellent Choice!
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”
― Ed Viesturs
― Ed Viesturs
For us to stay safe in the heat we took rest under most of the large Ponderosa Pines and drank a lot of water. We brought a filter with us to refill in the east fork of the Virgin River.
I think all of us drank something like 3 or 4 liters before reaching the end of Misery and then refilled and drank all that again on the hike out.
This canyon is awesome though. It was worth the sweat, the heat, the blood, the pain and anguish. I love it down there! I’ll let the photos do the talking about the canyon:
Featured image for home page:
