Moab Swimming Hole

[Iceaxe]

It was 100-degrees in Moab yesterday so we hit the ol' swimming hole in the afternoon. It was also the first time the new GoPro got to do some first class dare-devil type stuff.

Yes, I know some of you think it's irresponsible of me to post this type of video, and that makes me feel bad. Well, not really, but if I were a good person I would feel bad.

If you get hurt jumping or diving its your own fault, it is a dangerous activity. If you feel the need to contact me further over the posting of this video please visit my Nigerian lawyer. I paid him a very large retainer for just such an eventuality.

Now enjoy the show!!! :popcorn:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWBHhSwV5Y

[gnwatts]

What's so irresponsible? I enthusiastically endorse jumping in any clean, appropriately sized body of water.

[Iceaxe]

Funny... I received this via email. Apparently it was just posted in the local newspaper...


Out for a Saturday morning creek walk, we discovered a mob scene of out of state license plates at Powerhouse this past weekend. Our special summer watering hole that locals have kept secret for thousands of years, seems to have been published in a guidebook.

Tripping over people trying to skirt the narrow passages, making way for the idiots with broken ankles being hauled to ambulances waiting at Potato Salad Hill, we negotiated our way through the growing number of trails, past the pool and hundreds of people, to find a quiet respite beneath the shamanic figures facing the once inhabited alcove across the upper canyon. All of this is sacrilege to a place many of us consider sacred.

Is there some way to stop the presses, print retractions, or nip this in the bud? Can the county file suit to have the writer and publisher pay the cost of damages to sensitive public lands; or the cost to taxpayers for extra police presence, EMTs and search and rescue personnel; or the construction of public restrooms, barricades and trail development that will be required to mitigate this unfolding disaster?

Perhaps if there is no legal recourse, we could publish our own guidebook directing everyone to the natural hotsprings that have bubbled up into the backyards of the writer and publisher... or to the rare night blooming hallucinogenic flora that can only be found there.

This was not the entire post but I think you get the general drift. :lol8:

Since I added a Mill Creek Swimming Hole (http://climb-utah.com/Moab/mill.htm) webpage about 5 years ago it has probably been the most controvsial page on my website. I get a couple letters every summer telling me I'm an asshat for pointing the way to this place or that my website shows people jumping and that's irresponsible of me.

[oldno7]

I was photographing a bunch of kids at Powell the other day, and I have one major question????







Do all girls plug their noses when they jump or dive??:ne_nau::ne_nau:

[jman]

I was photographing a bunch of kids at Powell the other day, and I have one major question????







Do all girls plug their noses when they jump or dive??:ne_nau::ne_nau:

I find that really funny how you noticed this too.
YES! What's even better is most do it at the very top of the jump. He he

However, on our last Subway trip, the youngest in our group (18) didn't plug his nose as he leaped off the boulder into the water (maybe a 10ft jump) and as soon as he came up he had a bloody nose from the rush of water to his nose.

[Krrristi]

It's instinct. Funny thing is, I don't need to. It just happens, and I even do it right before wakeboarding crash landings. It's probably the quickest reflex I have, or maybe I've just perfected the art of looking cute and helpless... :ne_nau:

[Krrristi]

Since I added a Mill Creek Swimming Hole (http://climb-utah.com/Moab/mill.htm) webpage about 5 years ago it has probably been the most controvsial page on my website. I get a couple letters every summer telling me I'm an asshat for pointing the way to this place or that my website shows people jumping and that's irresponsible of me.
:cry1::cry1::cry1: sucks to be them. People are so possessive of 'their spots' but they don't mind traipsing over my shit, do they? Sharing is caring. Does suck about nature though, too bad people can't pick up their trash.

[nieder]

Was it the guy doing all the flips that ended up on the backboard?

[Sombeech]

Rob Kerchen[/B]]Our special summer watering hole that locals have kept secret for thousands of years, seems to have been published in a guidebook.

:roflol:

Hell, I've known about this place for at least 15 years, the locals were happy to give me directions.

And.... each time I'm there, it seems somebody's being carried out.

Oh, and people sunbathe nude up on top, just sayin'