Quicksand in Arches, interesting comments

Wild. Thanks for linking.

I packrafted the Dirty Devil one time and, after that, I kind of figured I knew about everything there was to know about quicksand. At one memorable spot we were stopping for a snack break and one of my friends just walked to dry land. I landed a couple feet away and got slightly mired, but not too bad. Then our other friend landed a few feet farther down and it took him 10-15 minutes to extricate himself, we couldn't even really help without getting stuck ourselves. Come to think of it, some of those spots might have been problematic if we hadn't had those super-buoyant rafts to use as leverage for getting unstuck.

Also, growing up in the 1970s, I feel like I received a lot of exposure to quicksand:

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