Before I go into the details of my stupid mistake let me explain what I'm hoping to get help on. I have two 300 ft ropes hang on the last two rappels in Heaps. One yellow (9.6 mm) and one blue (8 mm). If the next person to descend can give turn them into the rangers I'd be very grateful.
Here are the details of what happened. We descended Heaps yesterday (Saturday 9-20). As we got into the 3rd narrows the sky went dark and the Thunder started going crazy. At that point we were doing everything to descend and get out of the canyon as quickly as possible. I reminded my group that even though we were trying to hurry we couldn't afford any stupid mistakes (I should have taken my own advice). As we got to the bird perch I was setting up the last rap and started pulling the 2nd to last rap which I was going to use as my pull side for the last rappel. I mistakenly tied the wrong side off and got the pull side about 80 ft up. It had been raining on us at this point and I didn't feel it was a good call to start ascending the rope at this point. I chose safety over the ropes at that point. Sorry to whoever runs into the rope there and thanks for the help!
Nate
