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Robbers Roost - Larry Canyon 10/16/2016
Robbers Roost Larry Canyon 10/16/2016
My last memory of Larry Canyon, done years ago, was one of a hard free hang ascension to unstick the rappel rope. Maybe that experience
overpowered the retention of my memories of the rest of the canyon...... Or maybe I'm just getting old.
This last Sunday, it was like doing it for the first time. I had forgotten how wonderful the charms of this canyon are.
Larry canyon has a lot to it, a real classic - Remote location, easy walk in, long walk out, amazing scenery, scenic rappels,
long dark slanted hallways, stinky water, plenty of tricky-fun downclimbs, a 5.1 exit crack, snakes and a final lung popping climb up
and over of the Navajo sandstone canyon rim. It is a tough canyon.
And, if you do the last 500 feet climb out of the canyon in the dark with one headlamp and small flashlight like we did, the excitement level goes up at least two notches.
It is listed in two sets of beta, the bypass left of the last two rappels that is suppose to follow the Keyenta layers down,
but I couldn't find or see a reasonable way down from up there.
I found a lot of foot prints up there going back and forth but they all seemed to dead end up top. Anybody done that bypass recently?
Thanks so much to my canyoneering partners Alijeh, Jessica, Mike and Jeremy for a wonderful time and taking some remarkable pictures
The whole hoard of pictures can be viewed at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/french...57674054983741
Here are some of my favorite pictures
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