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Thread: Buckskin Gulch
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05-22-2007, 06:03 PM #21Originally Posted by Iceaxe
I did the one day thing in '91' and just sort of flew through. Looking forward to taking some time in there this time.
Thanks Shane...nice writeup
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05-22-2007 06:03 PM # ADS
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05-23-2007, 07:00 AM #22
When we picked up our permits the BLM supplied us with one ReStop for each permit.
Restop
http://www.whennaturecalls.com/produ...ess-pouch.html
One thing I forgot to mention that I'll be adding. Watch for rattlesnakes!!! They are little midget fellas and hard to see. Watch where you put your hands and sit. I've never done this route without seeing at least one. I've always seen the snakes above the rock fall, never below. But that just might be a freak of where I spied them.
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05-23-2007, 07:15 AM #23Originally Posted by Iceaxe
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05-23-2007, 07:25 AM #24
A couple more pics.
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05-23-2007, 08:20 AM #25
looks like it was a blast. we did buckskin overnight at the end of April, it was a lot of fun. been to lazy to get a trip report up.
how was the water? when we did it, the only deep water was between the Wire Pass confluence and Middle trail?
Here's some pics from our trip.Tear down Dams, Build up Dreams!
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05-23-2007, 08:45 AM #26
That's the first canyon I ever did and it was by accident. We were there to shoot the Coyote Buttes in '92 and the photographer that I was working for had very bad directions, he had a habit of finding these hand drawn maps on the back of paper plates. We entered through wire pass but never took the cut-off...
We ended up just pushing on through the canyon scrapping the shoot for that day. That day probably changed my life.
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05-23-2007, 09:12 AM #27
I guess I will add this back to my list.
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05-23-2007, 09:35 AM #28Originally Posted by Wasatch
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05-23-2007, 09:40 AM #29
Was on my list back in 02, then heard some bad things about it. Since then have not heard it mentioned much, till now. After seeing the pics, well, back it goes. There are so many canyons, it's ridiculous.
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05-23-2007, 09:56 AM #30Originally Posted by Wasatch
If I had a top five list this would be in the top three
Probably the only canyons I have done more are Pine Creek and Keyhole.
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05-27-2007, 07:07 AM #31
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Any more tips? Anything that is not obvious that one should not miss? Are the pictographs all in one spot?
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05-28-2007, 02:15 PM #32Originally Posted by tanya
http://climb-utah.com/Escalante/buckskin.htm
That has about everything I can think of. I'm sure there is a lot I've missed. I find new items every time I go through the slot.
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06-13-2007, 07:48 PM #33
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Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Glad to know the springs a springing too.
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06-15-2007, 12:03 AM #34
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Bo and I did Buckskin today. We were going to backpack it but decided to just do it as a one day thing. Great canyon. I think I took more photos today than I did in the Narrows last week.
That's a lot of pph.
We saw no srs (silent rattle snakes)! Whew!
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06-15-2007, 05:35 AM #35
did you go down and back out or down and up Paria?
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06-15-2007, 07:20 AM #36
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Originally Posted by oldno7
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06-15-2007, 08:18 AM #37
I figured Buckskin would be difficult this time of year with deep sand and hot days.... how was it? how long did it take you?
I figured your camera would love this canyon. When are we going to see a couple of your usual great pics?
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06-15-2007, 09:36 AM #38
I know that the best/worst time that I had in Buckskin was October '05 - 2 days after a "biblical flood" the 13 miles to the campsite involved thigh deep Buckskin Mud for at least half of the trip.
Shane, in your pics it looks like someone is crawling UNDER a log jam. In October 06 (21st ish) that baby had to be climbed over very very delicately as it was only about 4 days old and super unstable. Ahhhhhhh fun times!!! That was also within days of biblical flooding. I have yet to see Buckskin dry. Those 2 times it was flowing all the way through.
Bill
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06-15-2007, 10:02 AM #39Originally Posted by thedesertnomad
One day I'll do it again, we'll see what happens then...
Tanya - looking forward to your photos!
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06-15-2007, 10:59 AM #40Originally Posted by thedesertnomad
What was originally known as "The Cesspool" 10 years ago has completely disappeared and is now just part of a usually knee deep section. The rabbit hole under the rock fall is clogged and might never reopen.... its clogged bad. We had one log jam we crawled under this year that was new to me so it had to appear within the last two years. I have always done the hike in May and only encountered flowing water once in the Paria and never in Buckskin. I've done the route once when the snot mud was slippery and once (this year) when the canyon was a difficult sand slog.
Anyhoo.... that about covers the changing conditions I have encountered over the past 10 years in Buckskin.
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