Bogley Outdoor Community - Canyoneering

Egypt Road

nickdiy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:22:18 GMT

Headed down to Hole in the Rock this weekend....Sept 10-12. Does anyone have a road report on Egypt Road?

Invite Saturday 9/11 near Zion

trackrunner — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:36:54 GMT

My plans for Imlay changed to Sunday. So that leaves a possible short canyon for Saturday or a hike in the greater Zion area.

Thanks,

Invite Spry Partner

tylerhirshfeld — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:50:07 GMT

Got a permit for Spry tomorrow, Friday. Looking for a partner, got one space open. Hitting the Trailhead at 11-11:30. I got all the rope, webbing, etc. All you need to bring is your harness/canyon rack, some water, helmet, and pack. Call if you would like to join: 907.315.3367 Tyler

Rescue in Pandora's

ratagonia — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:26:32 GMT

Capitol Reef National Park (UT)
Canyoneer Rescued From Pandora's Box

On Monday, September 6th, rangers rescued a canyoneer who was unable to complete his planned route due to an inability to make it through a narrow slot in a rock formation. The man and his partner, both from Salt Lake City, had descended into Pandora's Box Canyon the previous day. Pandora's Box is considered to be one of the more difficult canyons to negotiate on the Colorado Plateau because of the extremely narrow slots throughout the canyon. After completing numerous rappels and negotiating several slots, the man, who was quite fit but weighed around 230 pounds, found that he couldn't pass through a particularly tight section.

In an attempt to exit the canyon, the two men scrambled out a lateral canyon, only to find that they couldn't go any further. They decided that the more slender man would continue on and complete the canyon while the larger man stayed behind and awaited assistance. The former completed the slots, descended the 150-foot exit rappel, hiked nine miles to his bike, pedaled four miles to his car, then contacted rangers early on Monday morning. The rangers requested assistance from the Utah State Patrol, which dispatched a helicopter that landed near the stranded man. Members of the county SAR team helped him reach the ship. Neither of the canyoneers was injured. [Submitted by Scott Brown, Chief Ranger]

Boundary Canyon - LOST pull cord

nickdiy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:57:31 GMT

70 meters, black 5 mil pull cord.
Likely in a blue stuff sack.

It was likely in late July...sorry for the late post. Haven't looked through my canyoneering pack since that trip and just realized it was missing.

thanks.

Found: Sunglasses in Parunuweap

trackrunner — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:13 GMT

It may be worth a shot. I found sunglasses in Parunuweap this past weekend in the middles section upstream above Joe's French Canyon. Possibly lost by someone doing one of the tech routes. Tell me the description (and don't go guessing high priced named brand it's not) and where you lost it.

Zion Permits?

moab mark — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:38:43 GMT

I think this has been discussed but I could not find it? I tried to go in on my express permit and get permits for Pine Creek-Keyhole and Spry and they are not listed? How is the park handling these with the road closure? Want to head down in a few weeks and trying to figure where we can go. Does anyone know what time can you pick up permits at Kolob?

Thanks

Mark

Invitation ...

rcwild — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:48:58 GMT

If you happen to be hanging around Zion Friday-Saturday, Sep 17-18, we have a couple of events at the ACA Zion Canyon Rendezvous that are open to the public.

Location: Moose Lodge, Zion Ponderosa Ranch Resort

Friday Evening
Canyoneering LNT (Leave No Trace) presentation by one of the Zion National Park rangers.

Bill Adams will conduct a one-hour canyoneering photo/imaging workshop. Bill will provide a laptop and projector to demonstrate color correcting, adding depth, simulating a polarizer and possibly manual HDR on a few photos from that day's canyon trips. He will have three different cameras including the new NEX5 and give a brief explanation on how to get the most out of each. Workshop overview is presented in these tutorial PDFs: http://www.insparia.com/acaphototut/

Start times for the Friday evening workshops have yet to be determined, but will be posted soon.

Saturday Evening
Social time starting at 7:00 PM with entertainment provided by Steven Swift. Beer donated by Zion Canyon Brewing Company.

Trip Report Behunin Canyon - 9-3-2010 (Includes panorama from the end)

Ryebrye — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:05:11 GMT

A group of 5 of us descended Behunin. Conditions in Behunin were as you would expect for this time of year - small pools of water with mysterious sheens, no flow, and a nice temperature inside the canyon.

The hike up was hot. We got a late start - hit the trail around 9AM - because most of us drove down that morning.

I took a lot of pics, but the most interesting shot is the panorama I took on the ledge next to the last Rappel. I posted it on my blog,

http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2010/09/...national-park/

I was pretty careful when I was taking the shots for the panorama, but in hindsight I think I should have been on belay... I don't want to get in the habit of standing unprotected two feet away from 200-foot drops... (I wasn't worried about falling, but... safety first in the future. )

I took a few more panoramas at different points, and when I get time I'll post them on my blog and in this thread.

Trip report part:
We met up with a group of 3 people at the first rappel. They were all new to canyoneering and had just taken a course a day or two again from ZAC on canyoneering. They were doing double-strand on Piranas and backing up their rappels with Prusiks - so every few feet they'd reach down and then slide the rope through their prusiks and then through their piranas.

We had all 5 of our guys down at the top of the second rappel before their second guy was down it.

The group definitely sped up (or our group got slower) - After the first set of drops we didn't see the other group until we got to the 6th rappel right before the last set of rappels. We helped them free their rope out of a groove on the last rap and they asked us for a few tips on adding friction to their pirana.

When I get around to processing them, I'll post more pics here.

Invite Trachyte Creek

goofball — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:28:09 GMT

I plan on being along Trachyte Creek 10.14-17. pack in 10.14 and camp on benches east of the Trachyte/Woodruff junction. pack out 10.17. never been down here before and want to hike out to the Hite benchmark as well as check out/descend what look like a couple possibly technical slots.

Trip Report Ouray, Colorado - Oak Creek

mmac — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:23:07 GMT

Some photo highlights from our trip through Oak Creek in Ouray!

The entire album can be found here.

A view of the town, and Cascade Falls from the approach hike.

Recording the dream.

Live it!

Randi, always stylin!

The flowers were really great while we were up there.

Gearing up.

More and more and more waterfalls.

Randi on rappel

Lisa finally made it back out with us!

Mark on rappel, loving that water!

:cold::cold::cold::2thumbs:

We're about to get a couple core shots woo!

Wow!

Matt takin it easy over those sharp edges.

Touchdown!

That water is some powerful stuff!

Matt was munching on these... determined that they "taste like burning."

Matt rocking this Stoke-o-Broke-o style gear loop.

Mark enjoying a sweet fan of water.

Randi downclimbing.

Lisa downclimbing.

One of the best waterfalls for pictures all trip!

More cool downclimbs!

Teamwork!

Trip Report Ouray, Colorado - Corbett Creek

mmac — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:59:04 GMT

Some photo highlights from our trip through Corbett Creek!

The full album can be found here.

Destination: The Dream

Love those Colorado mountains.

Life is rough!

An unexplored(?) 300ish footer across the canyon in one of the other forks.

Woh!

Maxin and relaxin above the first rappel about 170'.

Bottom-up view of the first rappel.

Cool waterfalls everywhere.

Sketchy traverse on narsty old rope :-/

Rope toss off of one of many weird anchors in this canyon.

Closer view:

This canyon rocks!

More super sweet narrows.

Spray

The gang at dinner

Trip Report Ouray, Colorado - Bear Creek

mmac — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:39:24 GMT

Here are some photographic highlights from my personal favorite canyon of the Ouray trip.

The entire album can be found here.

Destination: "The Dream"

Mark on the approach hike

View of the falls we'll be traveling through later in the day!

Prepping some gear after suiting up

Incredible flow in some places

Sweet rocks are everywhere!

Loving this canyon

More amazing waterfalls

Lunch time!

Setting up a new anchor beside the falls. The other one was either removed, or washed out... Seemed to be a good placement for the pull though.

Rapping through waterfalls :haha::2thumbs:

The result of trying to "test the flow."

Randi rocking this rappel!

Randi and the infamous "missing glove"

Mark on rappel

Some of the incredible narrows at the end of the canyon.

TR: Boundary Canyon, Zion, 9-2-2010

ratagonia — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:42:52 GMT

Now up on the Latest Rave:

http://www.canyoneeringusa.com/rave/index.htm

Enjoy -

Tom

Any classes around here?

Wasatch Rebel — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:38:38 GMT

I guess I'd like to at least learn how to set up a rope and biners for rappelling. And some of the basics for how to secure the rope, along with some canyoneering basics. Even a one day class would be better than the nothing I currently know--although I've been rappelling before, someone else set it up.

So, I guess what I'm asking is, I usually work on Saturdays, but I have September 18th off and if anyone knows of a class that some place like REI or elsewhere is offering--as long as it's close to Salt Lake--let me know.

(Mod Note: Moved from Hiking; more relevant here)