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As is often with backcountry incidents - the armchair/internet analysis, hypothesizing, and blame-placing takes off. I guess I won't hold back either.

I had the misfortune of being on the route...

We were there today, saw the body, and passed SAR on their way in. On the final rappell a guy used logs over a waterfall rather than the bolts. SAR told us his autoblock got caught in his descender,...

My girlfriend and I will be out in St George/Zion/SW Utah area from Sept 17-21st. We're looking at some 3A/3B canyons (day trips, or maybe some backpacking). We're climbers (she is fairly new, me -...