Misery-Parunuaweap-French

[Iceaxe]

On Saturday as part of a Tom Fest we did a down Fat Man's Misery, up Parunuaweap and out an exit I call French Canyon.

Why is it called French Canyon you ask? Simple.... Joe B claimed it in the name of France :lol8:

Anyhoo.... its a pretty cool route down a nice slot, through the best part of the seldom seen Barracks and out a little water filled side slot that the French are planning to use in their next retreat :haha:

The trip included Bette, Kyle, Chris, David, Christina, Doug and myself. The only member of the group I had done a route with before was Christina so it was fun getting to meet so many new faces.

And we all owe a big thanks to Christian who helped set up a complicated car shuttle. :clap:

[rockgremlin]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!

And bikinis to boot! Lucky dog!! :2thumbs:

Will this route be published on Climb-Utah?

[accadacca]

Ok....thats it! You punks in the canyoneering section have taken the crown with this last batch of trip reports.
Mountain Biking section = :doh: :compthrow: :gloom:

Canyoneering section = :cheers: :maestro: :blbl:

[Iceaxe]

Will this route be published on Climb-Utah?

It basically already is....

Use the the Misery description from Checkerboard Mesa down Fat Man's to P-weap. When you get to P-weap go up stream several miles using the P-weap description in reverse until you hit the exit canyon (French Canyon) listed in the Rock Canyon route description. Exit out French Canyon.

Misery
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/misery1.htm

Parunuweap
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/parunuweap1.htm

Rock
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/rock.htm

I'll be updating my Misery and Parunuweap route descriptions in the near future. I might add this deviation as a side note to the bottom of my Misery description. The route is about 9 hours. It takes 3 hours to set up the shuttle with real 4x4's. No wantabe 4x4's allowed.

:five:

[Iceaxe]

Oh yeah..... Parunuweap was flowing at about 38 cfs when we did the route. There is one major obstacale you must defeat when going up P-weap. It might get really hard to by-pass with flow over about 60 cfs.

:nod:

[Sombeech]

Now, if only we can get some bikinis on bikes... :nod:

[Iceaxe]

Now, if only we can get some bikinis on bikes... :nod:

Hehehe.... canyoneering babes are smokin' hot.....

:banana:

[nelsonccc]

Looks like I screwed up. Had I known there would be bikinis in Misery I would have bagged the attempt on Imlay, better scenery. :haha:

In any case I'm glad I could help. It was fun to talk with Doug and get to know him. It was enjoyable to plow through all that sand up there.

[accadacca]

What the %#@&! Was this a private photo shoot?! Good night nurse... :crazy: :eek2: :banana: :jump_nutt:

[stefan]

shane....now which one's french creek or canyon or whatever? or are you posting fluff :naughty:

[Iceaxe]

French Canyon is a real canyon....

Joe B named the canyon. On the USGS maps it is un-named.... So I guess Kelsey would call it P-weap 5th Canyon or something.... maybe river mile 25.2..... :roflol:

Here is a picture taken in French
http://uutah.com/forum/files/f09.jpg

I was teasing Joe B. earlier today about the name..... I asked if it was called French Canyon because it is used to retreat from Parunuweap :lol8:

I think French Canyon will be featured in the next Soldier of Surrender Magazine :roflol:

http://uutah.com/forum/files/french_soldierofsurrender.jpg

[Iceaxe]

What the %#@&! Was this a private photo shoot?! Good night nurse... :crazy: :eek2: :banana: :jump_nutt:

Smokin'

Just a typical weekend for the ol' Iceman :lol8:

[accadacca]

Ok this is just nuts!! :eek2: I am speechless.... :ghost:

[stefan]

French Canyon is a real canyon....

Joe B named the canyon. On the USGS maps it is un-named.... So I guess Kelsey would call it P-weap 5th Canyon or something.... maybe river mile 25.2..... :roflol:

Here is a picture taken in French ...



http://math.bu.edu/people/sf/fluff.gif :roflol:

[Iceaxe]

http://math.bu.edu/people/sf/fluff.gif :roflol:

:2thumbs:

A complete route description to Fluff Boy canyon can be found here:
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/rock.htm

:five:

[stefan]

http://math.bu.edu/people/sf/fluff.gif :roflol:

:2thumbs:

A complete route description to Fluff Boy canyon can be found here:
http://climb-utah.com/Zion/rock.htm

:five:

:lol8:

i just had to do that :lol8: mighty car shuttle though. how long did that take?

[Iceaxe]

From the Checkerboard trailhead over to drop a 4x4 and back to Checkerboard is 3 hours.

Good part is you set it up the night before. If working to create a weekend combo platter with Rock Canyon it would not be bad at all.

Hiking from the river, up French, to the 4x4 takes about 45 minutes. Not a bad hike out at all.

Rock Canyon Trailhead is a primo campsite :2thumbs:

[stefan]

very, very cool :2thumbs:

[stefan]

Hey Ice,

so right across from the mouth of rock cyn there is a extremely short canyon ... then just downstream from that, on the north side, there is a very long & very narrow canyon ... have you explored up this from the bottom? know about the descent? looks like it could be pretty great from the sat images.

[Iceaxe]

I don't know anything about the canyon you mentioned. I think eventually several interesting south side P-weap canyons will be discovered, and I think the key to accessing them all will be the French Canyon Retreat.

I have now exited French from upstream and from downstream, its is very convenient and a nice hike in p-weap from either direction. Only word of warning is hiking up canyon might be very difficult at flow above 50cfs.

[stefan]

I don't know anything about the canyon you mentioned.

well, it looks like difficult access, but it looks deep and dark, with possibly a huge rap in and a huge rap a 2/3s down as it seems to switch faults or something.

it could be really really good. :2thumbs: