"Chase and I went down to the Swell the second weekend of June 2012. The Swell has been very dry this year and most of the fun water canyons don't have much water. I thought it would be a unique experience to do Eardley when it is dry (or at least very low water).
It is a super fun canyon when there is tons of water!
It was a long and hot hike to the canyon. It took us about 8 hours 2 minutes to do the whole canyon from car to car. Total distance was 8.07 miles with 3007ft elevation gain.
The first pool of water for some relief was a little more than half way down the canyon. The water was pretty warm for canyon water and there was about 4 pools that you could actually jump into with only 2 mandatory rappels being the first and last rappels. It was about 95 degrees that day and we had a nice breeze which was nice.
I had forgotten how tiring this canyon is with all the sand slogging, elevation gain, elevation loss (800ft in 20min), boulder hoping, and more sand slogging.
We brought a 100ft 8mm rope as all the rappels are 50ft or less. It was a fun experience but I think I'll stay out of the swell until it fills up again ;)"