Zion: Pine Creek and the wall came down

Yesterday my wife and I just needed to do a quick hike, you know a leg stretcher. I chose Pine Creek on the North side of the the hiway just outside the tunnel.

A large section of the wall broke off and has done a pretty good job of blocking Pine Creek. This looked really recent and dust had not even washed away. Wonder if the heavy rains of July/Aug will clear it? Or will we have Pine Lake?

Win

Where it broke from:

http://www.fototime.com/8EB18AE73389F1B/standard.jpg

My wife navigating the rubble:

http://www.fototime.com/D401BAF9BBA7DF9/standard.jpg

It must have been a huge section:

http://www.fototime.com/66728935E7292CB/standard.jpg

Hmm... Not sure where this is, but we were in there on Saturday, and didn't notice anything unusual. Any other images of this? I can't quite place where this would be at. How far down from the last rap is this?

This not in the canyoneering section. This is in the section North of the hiway,
actually I think it's the part where you would start the hike to Spry Canyon.
stakes with arrows right above the drainage and you climb down on the East end.

Sorry for any confusion.

Win

I gotcha... We descended most of that route on Saturday, but I didn't notice anything too out of the ordinary. Wonder if it came down in the last 48 hours? Then again, that little drainage is full of rockfalls, I suppose it probably is common down there...

I love how many cool areas with which people are familiar around here. These are cool pictures!

[quote="Win"]Yesterday my wife and I just needed to do a quick hike, you know a leg stretcher. I chose Pine Creek on the North side of the the hiway just outside the tunnel.

A large section of the wall broke off and has done a pretty good job of blocking Pine Creek. This looked really recent and dust had not even washed away. Wonder if the heavy rains of July/Aug will clear it? Or will we have Pine Lake?

Win

That's a pretty section ...... If I am thinking of what you are thinking of.... It's called Clear Creek. It changes near that toliet from Pine Creek to Clear Creek and it runs along the highway toward the East Entrance. I am glad no one was in that section when it fell. How far did you hike through there? I took my younger son and we just made a short hike out of it when we did it, but I would like to hike the whole of Clear Creek one of these days.

http://www.zionnational-park.com/zio...lear-creek.htm

Or are you talking Upper Pine Creek when you enter into Spry Canyon?

http://www.zionnational-park.com/zio...pry-canyon.htm (hike)
http://www.zionnational-park.com/zion-spry-canyon.htm (canyon)



http://www.zionnational-park.com/ima...hike-7_jpg.jpg

Clear Creek

http://www.zionnational-park.com/ima...mple-n_jpg.jpg

Upper Pine Creek

Tanya, I think it was Upper Pine Creek, the drainage before Two Pines Arch going East from the tunnel.

Win

http://www.fototime.com/DF0F817955A1B55/standard.jpg


http://www.fototime.com/FA8600B415478E0/standard.jpg

Yes, those photos are Upper Pine Creek. That is not a thru slot though. It does not go too far past where you would head up the mountain side to do Spry. Did you see the black streak on the wall... the dryfall? The blockage comes not too far after that.

We walked to the end where it goes up the slickrock to Spry. I'm really curious to see how this backs up if we ever get rain again.

Win

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Originally Posted by Win

We walked to the end where it goes up the slickrock to Spry. I'm really curious to see how this backs up if we ever get rain again.

Win

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How far up Pine Creek do you suppose you walked to arrive at the Rockfall? 200 Meters-400 or so? Yeah...next heavy dumping, Upper Pine Creek may be a swimmer, wetsuits and all! :popcorn: