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High stemming. Rated R. Four canyons in ONE day? Slots so narrow that you can get stuck!
Bring it on! Let the Hog "wrestling" begin!
Yeah.... these canyons kind of intimidated me for a while, But the pictures I had seen of them inspired me. The area is beautiful and canyons look amazing! The desire to visit some pretty places trumped my fear of getting squished in the slot canyons. I love canyoneering!
The game plan was to backpack in and camp in between Boss Hog canyon and Hog 2. The hope was to hike all 4 of the Hog canyons, and camping where we did allowed us to visit basecamp every time we hiked the slickrock exit back up to the tops of the canyon. It worked out perfectly.
The evening before, after we had camp setup, we had a blast messing around with our cameras. I had just purchased as new GoPro Hero 4 Black Edition camera and was very eager to test out the new Night Photo modes. We had some great fun messing around with our cameras that night.
Morning came fast! (It didn't help that we stayed up way to late taking pictures of fireballs and glowsticks! haha) I am usually not a morning person, but when it comes to adventure, it doesn't take much to get me up and out of my sleeping bag. In order for us to complete all 4 Hog canyons in a day, we needed an early start. We were a bit later than planned, but we were still on the trail heading to Razorback canyon by 7:00 AM. Not bad.
The canyons were fabulous!Each canyon was very different. Razor back was my first canyon that involved "high" stemming. Boss Hawg was deeper, higher, narrower and longer. Hog 2 was wider and had some fantastic rappels. The "birth canal" section of Hog 2 was a definite favorite! Miss Piggy had been done before, but this trip was super fun! I love the down climbs in that canyon. Luke and I blasted through it and had a great time doing it!
So... doing all 4 canyons in 12 hours was AWESOME! What a mental and physical push! By the end of the 3rd canyon, I was ready to give up, but Luke kept me going. He had a goal to do all 4 (even though we both had done Miss Piggy before), and he helped get me to do em all!
This trip was such a fun adventure. I love an occasional canyon "jihad".
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