Canyon year

[shaggy125]

So... is it too early to post the annual how many canyons did you do this year post? It's always been a popular post in the past. I was self loathing about how little I got out this year because of school but when I broke it down to a list of how many canyons I did (not to mention riding days and climbing days) I started to feel better about myself. Here is my list for the year so far:

Trail
Boss Hog
Child's Play
Good Day Jim
Hard Day Harvey
Matacanes
Hydrophobia
Chipitin
El Salto
Labarinto
Choprock
Neon
Lower PINTAC
Frosted Flakes (twice)
Egypt 2
Egypt 3
Imlay
Das Boot/Subway
Lomation
Woody
Tierdrop
Pine Creek (twice)
Mystery
Keyhole
Englestead/Orderville
Middle Leprechaun
Black Hole attempt (failed due to LOTS of ice)
Left Leprechaun
Left Blarney (twice)
Right Blarney
Witches Cauldron (twice)

Plans in December:
4 days at Freezefest in North Wash

Must do's for next year:
Heaps again
Chop again
Bakers
More Powell stuff
Pandora's again
Pacific Northwest (I'm not missing it this time!)
More exploration trips

Let's see everyone's list.

[mrbrejcha]

Here is mine, lucky for this post I keep it all written down in a journal.

Proffesor Creek (solo)
Little Wildhorse and Bell
Maidenwater (twice)
Shenanigans
Medieval Chamber (twice)
W. Fork of Cheesebox (solo)
Shimrock/Mid. Lep (solo)
Lower Eardly (solo)
White Roost (solo)
Mindbender
Pine Creek (twice)
Keyhole (solo) (three times)
Spry (solo)
Echo
Mystery (twice)
Behunin (twice)
Red Hollow
Imlay short
Three Lakes Creek (first descent)
Cable
Left Blarney (twice)
Zero Gravity
Seger

[rockgremlin]

you guys are a bunch of braggarts......and I'm totally jealous...

[CarpeyBiggs]

Yankee Doodle
Pine Creek (4 times)
High Spur
East Pasture
Kinda Quandary
Shimrock
East Blarney
Shenanigans
Right Lep
Cassidy
Imlay
Pandora's Box
Eye of the Needle
Too Wet
Hidden (bottom half)
Mystery
Mindbender
Larry
Alcatraz
Das Boot
Snoqualmie
Denny
Gorge
Thornton
Cypress
Quandary Direct
Squeeze (twice)
Zero G
Esca-latte
Dove
Frosted Flakes
Egypt 2
Neon
Choprock
Virginity
Finland
Dragonfly
Trachyotomy
Maidenwater Yo-Yo
West Lep
Trail

[James_B_Wads2000]

Eye of the Needle


I want to see you receipt from ZAC, otherwise I'm calling the cops.


James

[CarpeyBiggs]

I want to see you receipt from ZAC, otherwise I'm calling the cops.

Feeling the pangs of my own guilt, I already turned myself in. They can't prosecute you twice for the same crime, can they? :ne_nau:

[Jaxx]

Blue John main fork out Horse Shoe
Mystery
PineCreek
Keyhole(2)
Spry
Black Hole
Fry Canyon
Medieval chamber
tierdrop
Crack canyon(non-tech)

[marc olivares]

little wild horse
that counts right :ne_nau:
i think there was one more, but i forget its name :lol8:

[rockgremlin]

i think there was one more, but i forget its name :lol8:


Shenanigans -- with Rob, me, and your dad -- remember?

I'm boycotting this thread by the way -- such a blatant pissing contest.

[jumar]

Ooo, I'm jealous with how much you guys get out. I only get out occasionally and am limited on time so I'm stuck doing short routes.

Let's see...

Dragonfly
Bighorn
White Roost
High Spur

[Randi]

So... is it too early to post the annual how many canyons did you do this year post? It's always been a popular post in the past. I was self loathing about how little I got out this year because of school but when I broke it down to a list of how many canyons I did (not to mention riding days and climbing days) I started to feel better about myself. Here is my list for the year so far.Let's see everyone's list.

Dang! Even with school, you got out a lot!

My outdoor activities this year included a lot of hiking, a few climbing trips, and two caving trips as well.

Considering I work full time, have a lousy three weeks vacation per year, and I have kids, I got out a fair number of times.

Anyhow, here's my canyon list.

Lytle Creek - Ca
Upper Jump - Ca (twice)
Kaweah - Ca
Cerberus - Ca (twice)
Hades
Jug - Az
Meadow - Az
Crystal - Az

Neon (short)
EII & up EIII
Chop Rock
Pine Creek (twice)
Fat Man's Misery (twice)
Water Canyon
Spry
Imlay
Echo
Lou Ellen (sp?)
Cathedral in the Desert

I think that's it.

Got plans to attend Freeze Fest too, but I hope to do something other than canyons the entire time. I wanna see some country beyond the canyons...some artwork and ruins and stuff...

~ We got moving water here in Cali! Here's a picture of me lounging around on the upper Jump trip of the North Fork of the Kings River after rapping a waterfall ~

~Randi

[Felicia]

[/quote]

Marc, you did Black Hole also...

Black Hole
Echo
Keyhole (4 times)
Subway (3 times)
Horseshoe Canyon (hiking)
Calf Creek Falls (hiking)
Backpacked the Narrows
Orderville

[shaggy125]

I'm boycotting this thread by the way -- such a blatant pissing contest.

Come on rock, you joined in when we did the same thing back in 2005,

http://www.uutah.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1108

now we are braggers? Actually it kind of shows what a loser I am. I'm pretty impressed with how much a lot of you married with kids guys get out, like You, Shane, Marc, etc... If I ever end up married with kids I hope I can get out half as much as you guys.

Eric.

[rockgremlin]

Oh alright.....I'll play -- even though I can only pee about 13 inches compared to your 4 feet, and Carpey's 5 feet. :haha:

[b]1. Lomatium (Arches)
2. Tierdrop (Arches)
3. Big Horn (Arches)
4. The Black Hole (Cedar Mesa)
5. Shenanigans (North Wash)
6. Happy Canyon (Lower Robber

[CarpeyBiggs]

Oh alright.....I'll play -- even though I can only pee about 13 inches compared to your 4 feet, and Carpey's 5 feet.

:roflol: But you're the one who taught me to pee that far, remember? And we all know that lots of pressure + small hole = lotsa distance. :2thumbs:

[nelsonccc]

Misery
Spry
Behunin
Seems like i have to hit the first three every year for the noobs and strippers

Laberinto
El Salto
Chipitin
Matacanes
Hydrophobia
Rock
Das Boot
Pine (twice)
Squeeze
Secret canyon

A few before the end of the year, Mystery and Birch.

[Cirrus2000]

Finally, I can play! I can play!
:clap: :banana: :clap: :banana: :clap: :banana: :clap:

First ever "technical" canyon was in mid-October, so I'm happy with:

West Leprechaun
West Blarney
Boss Hog
Cassidy

Plus October non-technical:
Spooky
Peekaboo
Coyote Gulch
plus lots of other less canyon-y stuff

Back in March, non-technical:
Buckskin/Paria all the way to Lees Ferry

April non-technical:
Horseshoe Canyon
and a bit of the Maze

Dang, it's been a good year - no, a great year! Gotta see how next year goes... I have a feeling it'll involve less total time in Utah than this year, but I think the quality will be good. And next year I'm really gonna lobby to make Freeze-fest. It's a no-go this year, sadly.

[shaggy125]

Nice Kev, the first canyons are always the best! Let us know when you will be out here again, I'd be willing to let you tag along.

Eric.

[AJ]

Very cool all. Great to see people getting out; and especially those new to the sport...

As for the pissing contest, it's all in the way you arc... ;)

Squeeze East Blue John
East Blue John Up and Down
Main Blue John/Lower Main Blue
West Blue John
Little Blue John
No Mans North Fork
No Mans Little North Fork
Alcatraz
Poncho
Gem
Enigma
East White
West White
Little White
East Buck
West Buck
Chambers
Full Music with upclimb and back down
Up and Down Knotted Rope
Quandary Direct
Ramp
Baptist
Chute
Egypt 4
Egypt 3
Extended Neon
West Baker
Choprock
Spry
Full Imlay
Full Heaps
Full Left Fork (Hammerhead, Wildcat, Upper Left, Das Boot, Subway)
Keyhole
Orderville
Narrows
Dream (x5)
Tenaya
Great Falls Of The Fox
Upper Classic
Fall Creek
Rubio
Little Santa Anita
West Muir
Lower Eaton
Supercloud
Left Leprechaun
Middle Leprechaun
Sandthrax
South Fork Maidenwater
Right Blarney
Left Blarney
Little Segers Hole/Segers Window
Music Down and Back
Segers Hole/Squeeze
Ding
Dang

And still a few more to come at FreezeFest...

I agree with Randi though; there's a lot more to do out there than canyons. It's been a pretty good year...

Take care,
A.J.

[shaggy125]

..... A really long list of canyons followed by the last one ....
Dang

Take care,
A.J.

Dang... is right! That's quite the list, so this brings up the question to the dudes with long lists, what is your day job? Do you just get out like EVERY weekend or do you get a lot of days off to do extended trips? Or do you work? I work 12 hour shifts so once school is done it's 6 on 8 off for me, can't wait!

Eric.

[rockgremlin]

And A.J. overtakes Carpey for first place with 6 feet, 10 inches!!

[Iceaxe]

Ice enters the room.... patiently looks around.............. and then exits quietly through side door.

Immediately heads for kitchen to get a huge drink of water before attempting to enter this years pissing contest....

:haha:

[AJ]

And A.J. overtakes Carpey for first place with 6 feet, 10 inches!!

Yeah, but Dan's newer to the scene, not to mention his pics blow everyone else's out of the water...

Eric, yep, I do work. Quite a bit. I do computer geek stuff for Oracle. I just make sure to take time to do the things I enjoy. Don't get enough vacation time (who does?) at just over three weeks. My list is long mostly because my main canyon partner, Jonas, and I both have an adventure racing background. We usually do pretty big days, so I get a lot of canyons in in way fewer trips than many.

For instance, the entire Blue John system was in one day. We went down Squeeze East, up Main East, back down Main East to the confluence, down Lower Main to the big drop, back up to the confluence, up West Blue, over to and down Little Blue, back to the confluence, and then up Main Blue; all in one day.

Your schedule will be awesome when school is done Eric. I better start drinking water now... ;)

Anyway, I'm sure Shane or others will beat me; but I really don't mind. I'm happy with the amount I've been able to get out. (However, if I had the chance to get out more, I'd take the opportunity!)


Take care,
A.J.

[taatmk]

I am an infrequent visitor to this forum, but would like to participate...

This year was a slow year for me, but here is what I visited this year:

1) Misery
2) Mystery
3) Keyhole
4) Pine Creek
5) Cheesebox (West Fork)
6) Black Hole
7) Birch Hollow (aborted after getting to the first rap--too much rain coming down)

Plans for next year
1) Birch Holow -Orderville (will be my third attempt after two previous aborts. I have had bad luck every time I plan a trip for this one)
2) Behunin
3) Larrys
4) Moonshine

[ratagonia]

Black Hole (jan 1, of course)
Upper Stair
Pine Creek (3)
High Spur (yawn!)
No Man's
Almost Mindbender (PFD)
Chambers
Subway (only once this year)
Crystal
Sundance
Parker
Punchbowl
Mystery(3)
Imlay (2)
Icecube
Labyrinto y Salto
Chipitin
Matacanes
Hydrofobia
Sleepy Hollow (PFD)
Heaps (2)
Englestead (4)
Service Projects in Zion (2 days)
End of Hidden (ie, Coreshot Canyon)
Right Fork / Stevenson Canyon (PFD)
Snoqualamie
Denny
Gorge
Thornton
Cypress
Behunin (what a beauty!!)
Jungle Love
Beast Ramble
Neon (about half)
E5 (just a bit, then retreat)
Birch Hollow
Arch Ramble
Elephant Butte/Ribbon Arch miscue/Dragonfly
Sandthrax (finally!)
Engelstead YoYo
Witches Cauldron
Woody
Hog1 and Hog2
E Lep / Main Lep
Not-Hog Ramble
Water Canyon (~22 days)
Lambs Knoll (~22 days)
plus 5 days in February that I have yet to figure out

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom

[nat]

And A.J. overtakes Carpey for first place with 6 feet, 10 inches!!

Uh..., looks like I've been canyonated. I've had 6ft years in the past, but this year have only made it about 6 inches.

High Spur
Chambers
Boundary
Pine Creek
Longbranch
Alcatraz
Main Fk Robbers Roost

[Brewhaha]

Just a dribble for me canyoneering wise:

The Black Hole

Lots of hiking and backpacking though.

[rockgremlin]

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom

That's awesome Tom! It's gonna take a lot to top that. You beat out A.J. by over 40 canyons. Sooo......I think that put you in the lead with 11 feet, 5 inches!!

Over 100 canyons in one year.....that's a really great year!

[ratagonia]

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom

That's awesome Tom! It's gonna take a lot to top that. You beat out A.J. by over 40 canyons. Sooo......I think that put you in the lead with 11 feet, 5 inches!!

Over 100 canyons in one year.....that's a really great year!

Quick - CLOSE THE THREAD - before Ramoo checks in!!!

Tom

[ratagonia]

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom

That's awesome Tom! It's gonna take a lot to top that. You beat out A.J. by over 40 canyons. Sooo......I think that put you in the lead with 11 feet, 5 inches!!

Over 100 canyons in one year.....that's a really great year!

Well, actually, that is over 100 canyon DAYS on the year. Far less than 100 canyons, since 22 days each in Water Canyon and on Lamb's Knoll.

Tom

[Iceaxe]

Thus, a total of 104 days so far

:hail2thechief:

[mtreker]

Granary
Pine creek (twice)
keyhole (three)
cameltoe
black hole
blarney
dragonfly (twice)
Behunin
red hollow
yankee doddle
spry
rock
echo
birch hollow
red cave
white roost
west roost
tierdrop
bighorn

Not bad for my first year.

[Scott Card]

Thus, a total of 104 days so far

:hail2thechief:

x2

And Dan, quite the resume for the Rookie year. :2thumbs:

My year was the worst year I have had in a long while. Too much work and a couple of booboos have reeked their havoc on me.

Heaps (OK, no complaints here :mrgreen: )
Larry x2
Subway
Zero G
Not Mindbender :lame:
Carpy's canyon
And hopefully some casual ones at Freezefest.

Not much for me but the juices are still flowin' for more.

[FOX]

I guess I'll take a leak too.....

Boss Hog
Trail
Hard Day Harvey
Good Day Jim
Dragonfly
El Salto
Labarinto
Chipitin
Matacanes
Hydrophobia
Black Hole
Pine Creek
Das Boot/Subway
The Squeeze
Quandry yo-yo
Crack
Zero G
Good Intentions (x2)
Slideanaide

So far, I think this has been one of my better years for canyoneering. It's amazing I'm still married, my kid recognizes me and I have a job.

[Brian in SLC]

Wow...some of you folks must really be into canyoneering (ha ha).

For me, get ready, here's my total for the year...

Big fat...zero.

My turtle head musta got scared and went inside...can you measure negative?

How many months have to pass with no canyons before my membership as a canyoneer is revoked?

Maybe I'll sneak one in before the end of the year...

-Brian in SLC

[stefan]

How many months have to pass with no canyons before my membership as a canyoneer is revoked?

Maybe I'll sneak one in before the end of the year...



how 'bout a sweet, ice climb ascent of a canyon?

[Brian in SLC]

how 'bout a sweet, ice climb ascent of a canyon?

I'm thinkin' that'd still go down as a climbing day, and not a canyon day.

Dang it.

Uhhh, you got something in mind?

-Brian in SLC

[tanya]

Black Hole (jan 1, of course)
Upper Stair
Pine Creek (3)
High Spur (yawn!)
No Man's
Almost Mindbender (PFD)
Chambers
Subway (only once this year)
Crystal
Sundance
Parker
Punchbowl
Mystery(3)
Imlay (2)
Icecube
Labyrinto y Salto
Chipitin
Matacanes
Hydrofobia
Sleepy Hollow (PFD)
Heaps (2)
Englestead (4)
Service Projects in Zion (2 days)
End of Hidden (ie, Coreshot Canyon)
Right Fork / Stevenson Canyon (PFD)
Snoqualamie
Denny
Gorge
Thornton
Cypress
Behunin (what a beauty!!)
Jungle Love
Beast Ramble
Neon (about half)
E5 (just a bit, then retreat)
Birch Hollow
Arch Ramble
Elephant Butte/Ribbon Arch miscue/Dragonfly
Sandthrax (finally!)
Engelstead YoYo
Witches Cauldron
Woody
Hog1 and Hog2
E Lep / Main Lep
Not-Hog Ramble
Water Canyon (~22 days)
Lambs Knoll (~22 days)
plus 5 days in February that I have yet to figure out

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom


Tom Dear!

We need to find you a woman! You have far too much time on your hands! :haha:

[Iceaxe]

We need to find you a woman! You have far too much time on your hands! :haha:

Yeah... we ain't talkin' just any woman... we need to get him an all night woman.

:lol8:

[ratagonia]

Black Hole (jan 1, of course)
Upper Stair
Pine Creek (3)
...
Not-Hog Ramble
Water Canyon (~22 days)
Lambs Knoll (~22 days)
plus 5 days in February that I have yet to figure out

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom


Tom Dear!

We need to find you a woman! You have far too much time on your hands! :haha:

Yah! The dating scene in Mount Carmel is somewhat less active than I was lead to believe.

Tom

[tanya]

Black Hole (jan 1, of course)
Upper Stair
Pine Creek (3)
...
Not-Hog Ramble
Water Canyon (~22 days)
Lambs Knoll (~22 days)
plus 5 days in February that I have yet to figure out

Thus, a total of 104 days so far, my first year over 100!

Tom


Tom Dear!

We need to find you a woman! You have far too much time on your hands! :haha:

Yah! The dating scene in Mount Carmel is somewhat less active than I was lead to believe.

Tom

Yep! Either married people, kids or people on social security. :mrgreen:

However! In Kanab there are single, non-Mormon, BLM women looking for single, active, attractive men like yourself! There are few single men there outside the BLM and the women don't want to date the men they are working with. Most of the females are healthy, avid hikers too... being BLM types.

PS... They hang out at the Adobe Gym in Kanab. :naughty:

[Iceaxe]

Tanya.com..... East Zion's internet dating service. :lol8:

[trackrunner]

And now for the shortest

Birch (2)
Englstead (met the Emperor Tom in Orderville on this one, And I know what you are thinking, I did not leave my friend, he left us, he just took off running we yelled for him to stop but no he ran and ran and got lost, those hunters said they saw him with your group)
Yankee Doodle Hollow

:frustrated: I need to get out more

[AJ]

Very cool all. Great to see people getting out; and especially those new to the sport...

As for the pissing contest, it's all in the way you arc... ;)

Squeeze East Blue John
East Blue John Up and Down
Main Blue John/Lower Main Blue
West Blue John
Little Blue John
No Mans North Fork
No Mans Little North Fork
Alcatraz
Poncho
Gem
Enigma
East White
West White
Little White
East Buck
West Buck
Chambers
Full Music with upclimb and back down
Up and Down Knotted Rope
Quandary Direct
Ramp
Baptist
Chute
Egypt 4
Egypt 3
Extended Neon
West Baker
Choprock
Spry
Full Imlay
Full Heaps
Full Left Fork (Hammerhead, Wildcat, Upper Left, Das Boot, Subway)
Keyhole
Orderville
Narrows
Dream (x5)
Tenaya
Great Falls Of The Fox
Upper Classic
Fall Creek
Rubio
Little Santa Anita
West Muir
Lower Eaton
Supercloud
Left Leprechaun
Middle Leprechaun
Sandthrax
South Fork Maidenwater
Right Blarney
Left Blarney
Little Segers Hole/Segers Window
Music Down and Back
Segers Hole/Squeeze
Ding
Dang

And still a few more to come at FreezeFest...

I agree with Randi though; there's a lot more to do out there than canyons. It's been a pretty good year...

Take care,
A.J.

Added 11 more in 2007 from FreezeFest:

Upper Stair
Fooling Around - complete with an ice breaking swim at the end.
Shillelagh East
Shillelagh West
A few side slot explorations
Lucky Charms
Checked out all the other stuff out to 276 (nothing good.)
Hog 4
Hog 1
Hog 2
Hog 3
Shenanigans
East Fork of Leprechaun

and 1 in 2008:
Black Hole

Finished off a great year with 73 canyons (or more, depending on
what counts as a canyon...) and got a good start on 2008 canyons.

Take care,
A.J.