Best of 2011 Canyoneering Pictures

[Iceaxe]

Time to get our annual best of 2011 thread going...

The rules.... only one picture per post and no more then 5 pictures from any one person. The pictures must have been taken in 2011. The pictures do not have to be yours, but proper photo credit must be given and you must have permission to post the photo if they are not yours.

And while it is not required it's always nice if you post a little bit of info along with your picture. What, where when, who and how...

For those interested:

Best of 2006 pictures
http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4941 (http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4941)

Best of 2007 pictures
http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9751 (http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9751)

Best of 2008 pictures
http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15425 (http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15425)

Best of 2009 pictures
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37456 (http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37456)

Best of 2010 pictures
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?41394

ready set go......

[Iceaxe]

Here is a picture of my girls in Keyhole.

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[dlofting]

Our two sons on the Mystery Springs Rap.....part of a trip to Zion in July that saw us do Birch Hollow, Spry & Mystery. The boys also did some rock climbing near St. George. Can't wait to go back in 2012.

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[Poot and Bernie]

Fry Canyon...
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[Iceaxe]

I snapped this picture of a friend in Kanarra Creek in July.

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[deathtointernet]

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The Upper Subway. Came solo down Russell Gulch, being alone I managed to get in front of all the other groups and the water was pristine and beautiful.

[deathtointernet]

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Swimming under a big logjam in the Upper Left Fork on the big Hammerhead to Subway adventure with Bo, Kip, Ram, Wayne, Dave, and Dan.

[deathtointernet]

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Lacy rappelling down Mystery Springs. Good to get back to this canyon after my terrible misadventure the previous time. While not *everything* turned out exactly right in the end, it was good to have a minimum of near-death experiences.

[deathtointernet]

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Near the end of Keyhole Canyon in the spring, while water was still flowing through it. It was perfectly clear, a little chilly, and a lot of fun.

[deathtointernet]

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If there was only photo to sum up this year, it would be this one. Misery Canyon was my first major solo canyon this year. I snapped this photo at the very end, not realizing how backlit I was. You can't really see who I am, but somehow it came out wonderful, an iconic photo for my year of soloing canyons.

[mrbrejcha]

My favorite two.

[ilipichicuma]

Gavin rappelling down Bridal Veil Falls in August. Totally sick.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/283514_10100131520039759_17827514_43558227_2699223 _n.jpg

[ilipichicuma]

Me in Rocky Mouth Falls. Also pretty awesome.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/261712_10100114193472339_17827744_43299059_1857591 _n.jpg

[ilipichicuma]

And one more: Me on the final rappel in Boundary Canyon.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/268280_10100120544844139_17827744_43390982_2971972 _n.jpg

[Cirrus2000]

My favorite two.

Matt, I seem to remember one with a ducky float toy - would that count as canyoneering?

[Strieby]

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We took my sister in law down Pine Creek to introduce her to canyoneering. As most of you would assume...mission accomplished! She's now addicted.

[Strieby]

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Just snapped this one playing around in a pool at the end of Pine Creek, thought it looked pretty cool.

[Michael_WB]

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[Iceaxe]

Red Spur - June 2011
Mark Olivares was using my camera and taking pictures. When I got home and downloaded the camera this picture was on it.

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[Iceaxe]

Echo Canyon - August 2011
The hot young wife on rappel, Hank Moon climbing out of a semi-keeper and my daughter Sierra watching the whole show.

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[deagol]

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I'm guessing most people know where this is?

[Slot Machine]

My wife in Leprechaun August 2011


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Awestruck during my first glimpse of Pine Creek's Cathedral, August 2011

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[Steve Hawkins]

Can a New Yorker play?

South Fork Choprock

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/pudgy_groundhog/IMG_9634.jpg (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/pudgy_groundhog/IMG_9634.jpg)

Neon Canyon

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Red Breaks

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[Iceaxe]

This is always one of my favorite threads each year. :popcorn:

[jdamin]

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Here we have Atlas, Hamlet, The Thinker & Michelangelo's David. A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself

[ilipichicuma]

A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself

Agreed.

[ratagonia]

Here we have Atlas, Hamlet, The Thinker & Michelangelo's David. A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself

OMG - awesome, or... something!

T :moses:

[mtthwlw]

Here we have Atlas, Hamlet, The Thinker & Michelangelo's David. A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself

:hail2thechief:

[Cirrus2000]

:nod: Nice!

[yetigonecrazy]

my meager contributions

[Renatomic808]

Double arch @ Lower Middle G-Earth canyon.

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[Renatomic808]

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Emerald Canyon

[Renatomic808]

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Mid rappel in Epic.. solo day. Looking to the next rap

ITS A DOUBLE RAINBOW!! What does it mean?!

[Renatomic808]

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Epic Canyon Solo.. looking down the 100ft free hang.

[ratagonia]

Epic Canyon Solo.. looking down the 100ft free hang.

Awesome pics, a little different than Utah. Thanks. Tom :moses:

[Renatomic808]

Awesome pics, a little different than Utah. Thanks. Tom :moses:

That's how i feel looking at everyone else's pics that aren't from here. Makes me wanna go, but then i realize you guys have snakes and poisonous critters... so I'll keep playing in my canyons til I crave more.

[rockgremlin]

Here we have Atlas, Hamlet, The Thinker & Michelangelo's David. A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself


WINNER! :haha:


Yetigonecrazy - where are those pics you snapped? Looks very similar to the Cedar Mesa.

And where is that "radiation area - keep out" area located?

[Mojave Silence]

Middle G-Earth Canyon, Maui
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[Branin]

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I just like this picture. Me in Keyhole
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Last rap in Pine Creek. Unoriginal. Everyone takes pictures of this rap. But for good reason: its awful pretty.
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Coming out of Middle Echo. Same trip as above. Goal was to introduce some friends. Got one of 'em hooked. Life is good.
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Me in Benson Creek. Fun little canyon I can do from my house and back in a couple hours, so I do it a lot.


These got grainy during upload. Dunno why. Sorry.

[spinesnaper]

The mud relief should be a candidate for a future calender IMHO. Not here is Dan Ransom's Storm over the Grand Canyon which is one of the greats. Since people are no longer following the one image per post rule. Here are three of my favs from the past year:

First image: Early summer 2011 in Boundry, Zion
Second Image: Pot hole school in the Squeeze, Fall 2011
Third Image: Quandry Direct, jumping after the hole was cleared. Fall 2011

Enjoy

Ken

[JennyMae]

:nod: I love this photo. It should be a 5.10 advert.

[Iceaxe]

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[tradkelly]

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It was a good year. I didn't die.

[shaggy125]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XUXraEpNFU4/Tb9vyC-NY3I/AAAAAAAABz8/N2n6nEcCYy4/s800/P4140585.JPG

Me sitting on big Murray's shoulders while Jenny eases over the edge of the big pothole. My job was to guide her legs into Juds arms who easily caught and lowered her safely to the ground. Awesome! It's nice having a 95lb lady and two former football players on your canyon team!

Photo taken by Ram.

[ratagonia]

:2thumbs:

[canyoncaver]

Dropping into West Fork White Roost, March 2011
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[canyoncaver]

Exiting W. Fork White Roost

[canyoncaver]

East Fork White Roost

[canyoncaver]

Bracing for a soft landing, No Mans Canyon, May 2011
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[canyoncaver]

Cool, clean, canyon water, No Mans Canyon
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[Mojave Silence]

Maui, Pi-Pi Canyon, brah

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[tcott]

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Black Hole

[bruce from bryce]

Our group: Nate, Tom, Julie and Parker resting prior to the next section of Heaps.

[bruce from bryce]

While not a technical canyon it was taken during Saddle Fest 2011 (May 2011) between doing canyons in the Escalante area. If you take the direct route you suddenly come upon this geologic marvel (created by wind??) as you crest a ridge and it appears below you. You ask as you peer into the abyss, "is that muddy water or sand?"

[bruce from bryce]

While cleaning up our ropes at the bottom of the last rap in Heaps we realized that we had left a rope at the top. Oooops! The Emperor quickly rigged a haul system (not sure of the advantage Tom established) and our gorilla, Parker, quickly ascended up the waterfall to retrieve the rope (well not so quickly) with assistance of the haul team. Moral of the story: never pull your rope until you are sure of what's below you or to ensure you have all of your equipment.

Photo by Julie Burton of Australia

[Mojave Silence]

So-Cal, Fox Creek May '11. (aka "Great Falls of the Fox")

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[wasatchghost]

How many of you remember your first rappel? Well this is my brother seriously reconsidering his after seeing the first drop into Alcatraz Canyon :haha:
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[Bo_Beck]

While cleaning up our ropes at the bottom of the last rap in Heaps we realized that we had left a rope at the top. Oooops! The Emperor quickly rigged a haul system (not sure of the advantage Tom established) and our gorilla, Parker, quickly ascended up the waterfall to retrieve the rope (well not so quickly) with assistance of the haul team. Moral of the story: never pull your rope until you are sure of what's below you or to ensure you have all of your equipment.Photo by Julie Burton of Australia

It must've been a really wet trip thru Heaps this day Bruce? If this photo is the last Rap in Heaps, then the Upper Emerald Pool was full to the brim as you are standing in it to retrieve your rope?

[ilipichicuma]

It must've been a really wet trip thru Heaps this day Bruce? If this photo is the last Rap in Heaps, then the Upper Emerald Pool was full to the brim as you are standing in it to retrieve your rope?

I was actually wondering the same thing. In fact, this picture looks a whole lot like the last rap in Boundary....

[ghawk]

I was actually wondering the same thing. In fact, this picture looks a whole lot like the last rap in Boundary....

seconded

[ghawk]

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Here we have Atlas, Hamlet, The Thinker & Michelangelo's David. A mud masterpiece if I do say so myself

This picture was taken at the end of Neon right before it runs into the Escalante. It had just rained the few days before and we floated the river down to Neon. Then we found the most squishy/slick mud and had an awesome time in it. :cool2:

[spinesnaper]

seconded

And I was picturing Tom hauling someone up 300 feet.:haha: I assumed it was some type of typo and they really meant some other close to the end rap in Heaps but that would be a whole lot of flowing water in Heaps. Now that you mention it, it does look like it could be Boundry.

Ken

[Iceaxe]

If this photo is the last Rap in Heaps, then the Upper Emerald Pool was full to the brim as you are standing in it to retrieve your rope?

If that's the last rap in Heaps its a different Heaps than the one I do.

[Branin]

I'm guessing most people know where this is?
Actually... No. Where?

[spinesnaper]

This picture was taken at the end of Neon right before it runs into the Escalante. It had just rained the few days before and we floated the river down to Neon. Then we found the most squishy/slick mud and had an awesome time in it. :cool2:

Don't know what you boys was smoking..but just inspired. And who said a liberal arts education would never pay off?:hail2thechief::hail2thechief:

[deagol]

Actually... No. Where?

Grand Canyon, Grandview Trail

[trackrunner]

It must've been a really wet trip thru Heaps this day Bruce? If this photo is the last Rap in Heaps, then the Upper Emerald Pool was full to the brim as you are standing in it to retrieve your rope?


While cleaning up our ropes at the bottom of the last rap in Heaps we realized that we had left a rope at the top. Oooops! The Emperor quickly rigged a haul system (not sure of the advantage Tom established) and our gorilla, Parker, quickly ascended up the waterfall to retrieve the rope (well not so quickly) with assistance of the haul team. Moral of the story: never pull your rope until you are sure of what's below you or to ensure you have all of your equipment.

Photo by Julie Burton of Australia

If I remember correctly they did Boundary the day (or a few) before Heaps as team efficiency training to see if they worked together for Heaps. Anyways that's what I remember Julie telling me 6 months ago.

[accadacca]

Epic and for the win on so many of these. :cool2:

[ratagonia]

If I remember correctly they did Boundary the day (or a few) before Heaps as team efficiency training to see if they worked together for Heaps. Anyways that's what I remember Julie telling me 6 months ago.

Bruce apparently is not following the forum, much.

IN FACT, just for me, Heaps reduced its final rappel to 60 feet down an 80 degree chute, so Parker would not have to carry a 300 foot rope through the entire canyon...




and if you believe that... ... ...




Yes, the final rap in Boundary. Absence of the other rope was fortunately noticed before the rope was pulled. Parker volunteered to jug up the rope, and agreed to try my hare-brained "easier" scheme, which proved to be about the same amount of effort as just jugging up the rope.

Tom

[bruce from bryce]

It is the last rap in Boundary.
And the prize for your correct answers will be to take me through an unnamed canyon next summer! LOL:hail2thechief::scared::lol8:

[bruce from bryce]

Have not been monitoring this site nor any others as I have been 'working my ass off'! Late nights (2:00am) and early wakeups (6:00am) make this old man very tired.

[spinesnaper]

Bruce apparently is not following the forum, much.

IN FACT, just for me, Heaps reduced its final rappel to 60 feet down an 80 degree chute, so Parker would not have to carry a 300 foot rope through the entire canyon...

Tom

Tom

Gosh, I think I have seen this technique before in an early canyoneering movie with Charleston Heston, Anne Baxter, and Edward G. Robinson. My recollection is a bit hazy but as I recall, the character played by Heston used an advanced ghosting method to move a vast number of canyoneers (boy scouts if I am not mistaken) through a dangerous class C canyon. I am pretty sure this is the correct image.

http://anthonyuu.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-ten-commandments.jpg

Ken

[ilipichicuma]

Tom

Gosh, I think I have seen this technique before in an early canyoneering movie with Charleston Heston, Anne Baxter, and Edward G. Robinson. My recollection is a bit hazy but as I recall, the character played by Heston used an advanced ghosting method to move a vast number of canyoneers (boy scouts if I am not mistaken) through a dangerous class C canyon. I am pretty sure this is the correct image.

http://anthonyuu.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-ten-commandments.jpg

Ken

This may be the best post of 2012. And it just started! :lol8:

[ratagonia]

This may be the best post of 2012. And it just started! :lol8:

Here, fixed that for you:

[spinesnaper]

Here, fixed that for you:

So much better.:haha:

[CarpeyBiggs]

:roflol:

[Scott Card]

:roflol: X2

[ilipichicuma]

:roflol:

[ghawk]

:lol8:

[Audilard]

Mindbender
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[slim]

Neon Canyon, about May 1st.

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My nephew, Jeb Bjerke rappin'

[xxnitsuaxx]

Same canyon, different experiences - The Squeeze

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Post-Shenanigans aftermath in Ray's

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Not a great picture, but we spent 30 minutes looking for the Angel's Landing trailhead. I've done that trail a dozen times. It was a pretty inauspicious beginning to Imlay.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/250275_10100126717728629_17803073_43489079_1263326 _n.jpg

Havasupai is in a canyon. Close enough?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/253214_10100126730263509_17803073_43489377_7571954 _n.jpg

[slim]

I LOVE that first pic, "SCDE".
Like Tom Jones says, "Canyoneering: Kind of like fun, only different..."

:haha:

[slim]

I was in Havasu a LONG time ago. Where was that shot taken?

[CarpeyBiggs]

technically it's in havasu canyon, looks like those guys are within a few hundred yards of the colorado river. havasupai is the name of the village (and the tribe), but the canyon is havasu, fwiw.

[slim]

Actually, as I recall, the village is Supai, the tribe is havasupai and the canyon is Havasu. Crazy! .. . . . "Good though!"
Any way you name it, it's paradise. :mrgreen:

[CarpeyBiggs]

ha. yes, you are correct.

[Kryzzle]

Angela in Upper Stair Canyon 05/19. Had to exit shortly after, facing a 15ft drop we couldn't downclimb.

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Little Blue John 05/21

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Final rappel in Little Blue John

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Had a lot of fun this day :)

[peakbaggers]

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May not be the best photo around, but I just liked the mood this conveyed.
Taken in U-turn route in Arches NP in May of 2011. From right to left, myself,
son Shaun, daughter-in-law Lyndsi, and friend, Art. My wife took the photo.

[CarpeyBiggs]

May not be the best photo around,
disagree. that's a fantastic photo. great shot. :2thumbs:

[accadacca]

disagree. that's a fantastic photo. great shot. :2thumbs:
Agreed! :cool2:

[Scott P]

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/766605.JPG (http://www.summitpost.org/chimney/766605)

[Scott P]

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/720483.JPG (http://www.summitpost.org/waterfall-rappel/720483)

[Scott P]

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/715667.JPG (http://www.summitpost.org/golden-cathedral/715667)

[Scott P]

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/380918_240068026056994_100001613961660_646821_1654 613113_n.jpg

[Scott P]

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/384742_240076246056172_100001613961660_646834_1896 882964_n.jpg

[MrAdam]

From a day of personal records and firsts for me.... First exploratory canyon, longest mileage for a canyon-14 miles, longest time hiking- 18 hours and 20 minutes. First Epic. First Descent

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[Kryzzle]

Great shots - can anybody comment on the names of these places?

[jon.moab]

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[jon.moab]

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