canyonguru
07-27-2008, 06:57 PM
7-26-08 Three of us started the maze in red rock canyon at 7:15 am from the top of the rocky gap road. we reached the first rappel at 8:30 singed the log book and contiued down canyon. The first rappel we replaced the webbing around the small stone. There were a couple of defferences that we found on the write we took from lukes' web page. Some of the raps were a little longer then the RD posted, but that is canyoneering. We had and abosute bast, but it was a long hard romp of a day. Half way through the open section of the canyon we started getting a thunderstorm above us but all it did was sprinkle a little. It was kinda neet that we could look up and talk to some guys doing the Bridge Mt trail. They said that the storm looked pretty bad. Needless to say it wasn't. We reached that last 190ft rap at the end of the canyon just as the sun was setting. I was the seccond person to rap down and i could just barely see what i was doing, the last guy had to us a head lamp and rap down 190ft to the bottom in the dark. On the final pull our rope pulled just fine but when it fell it laded in a pothole ledge about 40ft up and got stuck. we tried for 45min to get it unstuck but no luck we had to cut the rope and leave it hangin. We made it back to the truck in pitch black at 10:30. so it ended up taking us 15hrs and 15 mins. we ran into a couple of problems early on. one of our guys sprained his ankle on rap 4 so that made things rough early on. the other guy was 53 so he was a little slow but still did an awesome job setting up the raps and keeping our heads straight.
this is an awesome canyon, it rips you up and spits you out but well worth it. this is the first 4 rated canyon i have ever done so keep in mind for all of you experts out there this would be a great day for you. there are plenty of naturaly anchors in this canyon so please keep the bolts out, unless the last rap bolt needs to be replaced which is the only bolt in the canyon. We were the 3rd group down this summer basted on the sign in book.
Overal a killer canyon with some of the most awesome raps i have ever done. oh a shorty wet suit is plenty of water pertection and does not need to be put on until the lower section, this canyon has water at the bottom of every rap but 1 or 2. check it out if you can.
the pics are not in order because they came out of a cheepo waterproof camera, and if someone can give me the steps to post the pics straight on to bogley i would apreaciate it, i am a little retarded when it comes to that sort of thing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29120098@N08/sets/72157606431078109/
this is an awesome canyon, it rips you up and spits you out but well worth it. this is the first 4 rated canyon i have ever done so keep in mind for all of you experts out there this would be a great day for you. there are plenty of naturaly anchors in this canyon so please keep the bolts out, unless the last rap bolt needs to be replaced which is the only bolt in the canyon. We were the 3rd group down this summer basted on the sign in book.
Overal a killer canyon with some of the most awesome raps i have ever done. oh a shorty wet suit is plenty of water pertection and does not need to be put on until the lower section, this canyon has water at the bottom of every rap but 1 or 2. check it out if you can.
the pics are not in order because they came out of a cheepo waterproof camera, and if someone can give me the steps to post the pics straight on to bogley i would apreaciate it, i am a little retarded when it comes to that sort of thing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29120098@N08/sets/72157606431078109/