'08 Zion Noobfest - Don and Josh at Noobfest TR

[Don]

Josh and I drove down Thursday night. We camped about 12 miles from Yankee Doodle canyon in a National Forest campground over there (can

[Don]

First anchor of the day; Yankee Doodle.
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[Don]

Wildcat Canyon TH
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Something stinks.
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The wrong drainage we took to Das Boot.
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More wrong drainage.
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Found Das Boot!
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Our Rap into Das Boot.
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I got this wetsuit off the KLS.com classifieds for 45 bucks!
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Josh at the jump pool.
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Josh took this picture to show my envy of his new shoes.
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Josh getting ready to rap though a waterfall.
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Killing time (drinking beer) at the Springdale city park.
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Since we got rousted out of bed behind the PN we went to the park Sunday morning to have this yard sale. Cleaning out the Jeep and drying out stinky gear. We even had time to grill up some bratwurst for breakfast.
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[Don]

Prep for Pine Creek with Jaxx and his group. Sorry, don't remember everyones names.

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[Felicia]

You guys were a hoot!! Can't wait to meet you in a canyon again. :five:

[Don]

And the videos.
Josh jumping into the pool at the end of Das Boot.

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Josh rapping a waterfall.

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And our Sunday morning yardsale BBQ at the city park.

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[abirken]

Hey Don, What did you think about that last rap in Pinecreek? I remember you asking me about it and then I kinda freaked you out. HAHA!! I see you survived it just like I did. :2thumbs:

[Don]

Hey Don, What did you think about that last rap in Pinecreek? I remember you asking me about it and then I kinda freaked you out. HAHA!! I see you survived it just like I did. :2thumbs:
Didn't freak me out nearly as much as I thought it would. Our improvisation rap into Das Boot was more awkward and took me awhile to start. :haha:

[LJ]

You two crack me up - great photos and fun videos!


Lin

[tanya]

So that's what you two look like when you are not hanging out at the local bars. :lol8:

[josh]

[quote][We camped about 12 miles from Yankee Doodle canyon in a National Forest campground over there (can

[chabidiah]

It was fun and you guys are funny dudes. I loved the kiddie jump into the narrow hole on pine creek. You made me laugh when you had to coax yourself to jump eight feet into the water but you rapped the 100' on pine creek no prob. I am glad you guys came with on Sunday and it was good to meet you. By the way our names were ; Chad(me), Emily(my wife), jaxx(Nick), canyon girl(jaxx's wife, aka Steph), Tyson and Emma. I hope we can catch up sometime this summer and do some sport climbing up AF or something. Peace

[Win]

That's a great trip report, Don. You guys were great to hang out with at the PN. Randi mentioned it earlier but the "evil twins" is a funny story! Looks to me like you two had as good a time as anyone.

Win

[DiscGo]

Great post! I enjoyed the video with the anticipation of jumping. It seems like everyone had a great time this weekend.



Was Jaxx at the Pizza Noodle? I was looking forward to meeting him this weekend and don't believe I did.

[trackrunner]

I heard bolts have reapeared in Yankee at the first rap. Juding from this pic it looks like they have.

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[Jaxx]

Was Jaxx at the Pizza Noodle? I was looking forward to meeting him this weekend and don't believe I did.

We were there but we were a little late to dinner.

Don and Josh are AWESOME. It was fun going through the canyon with you two. Hope we can meet up again.

[Alex]

Was Jaxx at the Pizza Noodle? I was looking forward to meeting him this weekend and don't believe I did.

Ya he was sitting on the other end of the table.


Jaxx is in the red shirt
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[DiscGo]

Sorry Jaxx. I took off early and drove home that night because of my ankle. I would have liked to have met you.

[accadacca]

Good to meet you fellas at the noooodle. Man there are so many peeps on here. I cant keep track of all the boglyites. :eek2:

[Don]

I loved the kiddie jump into the narrow hole on pine creek. You made me laugh when you had to coax yourself to jump eight feet into the water but you rapped the 100' on pine creek no prob.

I can see and analyze the anchor and it seems easier to wrap my mind around the safe use of that. I understand the same principal applies to jumping into a pool but I just can

[chabidiah]

That is some good rational and I think being cautious is healthy. I think I'm too stupid to think that hard and a bit of a "closet" show off, like most men. As was obvious while trying to slide down the rock on a rock and scrambling not to get hit in the head with the rock. But fun was had and I would probably try it again, but with a bigger rock! :ne_nau:

[Don]

That is some good rational and I think being cautious is healthy. I think I'm too stupid to think that hard and a bit of a "closet" show off, like most men. As was obvious while trying to slide down the rock on a rock and scrambling not to get hit in the head with the rock. But fun was had and I would probably try it again, but with a bigger rock! :ne_nau:
Still wish I had video of you running down that slope looking back over your shoulder to see if the rock was still chasing you. Classic! :roflol:

[Jaxx]

That is some good rational and I think being cautious is healthy. I think I'm too stupid to think that hard and a bit of a "closet" show off, like most men. As was obvious while trying to slide down the rock on a rock and scrambling not to get hit in the head with the rock. But fun was had and I would probably try it again, but with a bigger rock! :ne_nau:
Still wish I had video of you running down that slope looking back over your shoulder to see if the rock was still chasing you. Classic! :roflol:
That was awesome.

[josh]

I am new at this computer stuff. Maybe some one can explain to me what to do after I copy and paste a previous staement example Jaxx said... or Chabidiad said... to make it come out in some order.
That would really help this newbie become a better communicator or a wiser ass! :haha:

The rock was fantastic maybe bigger with much more sand is the key.

[Don]

You can use the "quote" button in the upper right hand corner of the message of the person you want to quote, but that will quote their whole message. If you want to quote just part of their message you can copy and paste and then put
at the beginning and at the end of the part you're quoting.
OR, while writing your message there are buttons above the field where you are typing click the Quote button and it will put
in the message field for you. then paste the message, then hit the Quote button again and it will write for you.
If that's confusing call me.

[josh]

You can use the "quote" button in the upper right hand corner of the message of the person you want to quote, but that will quote their whole message. If you want to quote just part of their message you can copy and paste and then put
at the beginning and at the end of the part you're quoting.


Thanks alot now I can really start having some fun! :2thumbs:

[Don]

Now, if you want the name of the person your quoting in there it has to say
(or whoever it is you're quoting and those quotation marks around the name need to be there) at the beginning of the quote. Then the end like before.

[Don]

Also it's known as stealing or hijacking a thread (and is considered rude by some) to completely change the subject of a thread and we have totally stolen our own damn trip report here.
:stupid:

[stefan]

good to know someone's keepin' order around these parts :2thumbs: :haha:

[josh]

Also it's known as stealing or hijacking a thread (and is considered rude by some) to completely change the subject of a thread and we have totally stolen our own damn trip report here.
:stupid:


Time to get back on track. I wonder if Yankee Doddle was suppose to have bolts? It really did make that rap much easier than I would of liked.

Part of the fun is finding the natural anchors. :?

[Don]

Time to get back on track. I wonder if Yankee Doddle was suppose to have bolts? It really did make that rap much easier than I would of liked.

Part of the fun is finding the natural anchors. :?

I completely agree.
There were plenty of options there for natural anchors. I have not been involved in the bolt or no bolt arguments here in the past as I have little experience with the subject and have not really formed an opinion.
In that particular location though bolts are a damn shame.

[josh]

Time to get back on track. I wonder if Yankee Doddle was suppose to have bolts? It really did make that rap much easier than I would of liked.

Part of the fun is finding the natural anchors. :?

I completely agree.
There were plenty of options there for natural anchors. I have not been involved in the bolt or no bolt arguments here in the past as I have little experience with the subject and have not really formed an opinion.
In that particular location though bolts are a damn shame.

I think the tree that was above the bolts to the west would be a great entrance. I think bolts do not need to be there. You end up retreiving your rope at the end of the day all it takes is few seconds to remove webbing and then the canyon is back to normal.

[trackrunner]

Time to get back on track. I wonder if Yankee Doddle was suppose to have bolts? It really did make that rap much easier than I would of liked.

Part of the fun is finding the natural anchors. :?

I completely agree.
There were plenty of options there for natural anchors. I have not been involved in the bolt or no bolt arguments here in the past as I have little experience with the subject and have not really formed an opinion.
In that particular location though bolts are a damn shame.

I think the tree that was above the bolts to the west would be a great entrance. I think bolts do not need to be there. You end up retreiving your rope at the end of the day all it takes is few seconds to remove webbing and then the canyon is back to normal.

That was how it was done. You could leave your rope tied around the tree and walk back to get it when done with the canyon.

[tanya]

Great Stuff :2thumbs:

[AJ]

Yeah, I'm guessing the bolts were put there by a Guiding company. Looking for convenience, I'd guess. I met a group from Paragon guiding some folks down through there yesterday. Nice folks. They bring the people down, and then hike them out the north side canyon. One guide climbs out to go get the truck while the other walks the clients out. It's a great canyon for that, for sure.

As for the bolts, they are pretty well hidden from sight though; I think they did a good job keeping them inconspicuous. You can definitely just ignore them and do the canyon au natural (I did...)

Later,
A.J.









Time to get back on track. I wonder if Yankee Doddle was suppose to have bolts? It really did make that rap much easier than I would of liked.

Part of the fun is finding the natural anchors. :?

I completely agree.
There were plenty of options there for natural anchors. I have not been involved in the bolt or no bolt arguments here in the past as I have little experience with the subject and have not really formed an opinion.
In that particular location though bolts are a damn shame.

I think the tree that was above the bolts to the west would be a great entrance. I think bolts do not need to be there. You end up retreiving your rope at the end of the day all it takes is few seconds to remove webbing and then the canyon is back to normal.

That was how it was done. You could leave your rope tied around the tree and walk back to get it when done with the canyon.