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[oldno7]

Flush some Zion canyons this afternoon!

[Scott Card]

???? :ne_nau:

[oldno7]

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Major rain storm, Zion has flash flood warning.

[oldno7]

I've been watching here:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=ICX&loop=yes

Cedar City and Parowan are getting hammered as well.

[Byron]

I wish I was there just to hang out and watch it. This is good because as long as it doesn't dry up too much, there will be a nice fall bloom.

[canyonguru]

I was just going to post up a new thread on the doplar radar but you beat me to it. It looks nice an heavy with good bands of yellow radar returns. post up some pics if you are there, Those of us outside the park would love to see em. We here in vegas have been getting a lot of flash flood warnings but really the weather has produced minimal rain and lightning, pretty disapointing this monsoon season.

[deathtointernet]

Some shots while retreating from Keyhole yesterday afternoon:

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And that's how I didn't end up going through Keyhole for the billionth time. Even before the storm the start of the canyon looked completely full of water. Refilled indeed!

[Scott Card]

:2thumbs: excellent photos!

[ilipichicuma]

Sick! I've wanted to see flash flood for a while now, I'm jealous.

[canyonguru]

Yeah sick, Thanks a bunch for the photos. That looks great. I would not want to be in keyhole while flooding even if there is a small flow. Not much room in there. keep em coming.

[Taylor]

Awesome! Nice pics.

[accadacca]

Tks for the pix! :popcorn:

[mtn_dude]

Very Nice!

[Kishkumen]

Yeah sick, Thanks a bunch for the photos. That looks great. I would not want to be in keyhole while flooding even if there is a small flow. Not much room in there. keep em coming.

Just wondering if anyone has done Keyhole with a flow? Looks fun as long as there was not a major downfall on you.

[jman]

Just wondering if anyone has done Keyhole with a flow? Looks fun as long as there was not a major downfall on you.

I've done it a few times with a flow and it sure makes keyhole more lively. I have done it in late march as the snow is melting and has a flower rate and approximately 3cfs and it was a riot. A lot of fun! The 2nd rap was probably the "hardest" as the water has a flow that will be on top of you. However, the anchor is in a good location and maneuvering around the falls is fairly easy.

The other time was after a flash flood with very similar circumstances just muddier.

[ilipichicuma]

I've done it twice with flow. It was awesome! A highly recommended adventure. It made one of the downclimbs into an awesome waterslide, as I remember.

[jman]

I've done it twice with flow. It was awesome! A highly recommended adventure. It made one of the downclimbs into an awesome waterslide, as I remember.

Yup, the waterslide - fun! That's where people call it the 3rd "rappel". Good stuff. A flowing pinecreek and keyhole are not to be missed in my opinion.

[nat]

Excellent! Awesome photos.

Nat

[Scott Card]

Looks like it is at it again.

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[Scott Card]

Yep, it rained!


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*edit: Fixed (hopefully) attachment

[ratagonia]

That's a BIG ONE!

T

[Scott Card]

What was crazy was that it looked like the first spike came and was subsiding and then the narrows got blasted with a wave twice the size of the first. :eek2:

[restrac2000]

Epic in Cedar yesterday. Another flood watch today.

Thanks for all the photos!

[ratagonia]

Here's a vid from the N Fork Virgin, from near Canyon Junction:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AORsM-g2CQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Enjoy.

Tom

[restrac2000]

Thats more water than we had floating through Desolation Canyon of the Green River last week.

[Rob L]

I was in a very flat part of mid Wisconsin last week (Oshkosh) and even they had a flash flood (2" in 20 minutes or so).

No danger or casualties because of the flat land, but a German WWI biplane took out a WWII Mustang in the wind that accompanied the storm with 60mph winds. Note the people still wearing ponchos.

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Both are (were) replicas.

[Scott Card]

Based on radar, it looks like it is back at it in Zion again today with some pretty nasty rain in the area. Crazy week.

[ratagonia]

Based on radar, it looks like it is back at it in Zion again today with some pretty nasty rain in the area. Crazy week.

Just had a half-hour of hard rain, clearing off now in Mt Carmel. Might have nailed Zion, might not have...

T

[oldno7]

Kanab Cr. is supposed to be flooding.

[restrac2000]

The debris in Coal Creek in Cedar has been amazing to witness. Wish I could have been down in Zion to witness the storms. Maybe times have changed, but in the past you almost had the park to yourself during such storms because everyone ran inside.

[deathtointernet]

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Subway was a muddy mess yesterday... flow down from Das Boot, and also flowing in from Russell Gulch. No crystal clear pools, more like swimming through chocolate milk! Slow going because it was so thick you couldn't tell if the water you were stepping into was going to be an inch deep or suddenly drop away six feet. Glad though the weather finally decided to cooperate!

[SlickRock]

The debris in Coal Creek in Cedar has been amazing to witness. Wish I could have been down in Zion to witness the storms. Maybe times have changed, but in the past you almost had the park to yourself during such storms because everyone ran inside.

I spent the last week vaca in Zion. Got late starts some days until closures were lifted and permits issued. Even starting echo, pine creek and mystery around noon ish, our tracks were first in. And as slow as we were, no one passed us. Point being... We had the slots to ourselves all week!!! Only on mystery did we find another party and that was a pair of rangers gps marking the rap locations.

Imagine... Coveted Mystery empty.

In fact I had no prob getting last chance drawing for subway either!

But the lightning storms were scary descending weeping hollow in the rain! Small rocks pelting us from the cascading streams too.