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Thread: What's Your Favorite Canyon?
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03-23-2008, 08:45 AM #1
Haven't done it yet, but I am pretty sure that Choprock is going to be my favorite when I knock it out this year. I've done Imlay, and that was good, but we blasted through it so fast that I didn't really have time to enjoy it.
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03-23-2008 08:45 AM # ADS
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03-23-2008, 12:35 PM #2
Considering that I have only 4 slot canyons under my belt, I'd say Main Blue John was my favorite.
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03-23-2008, 01:06 PM #3
i'm backing shane on this one
"the one i'm in" or "the last one i did"
they are all my favorite for different reasons
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03-23-2008, 04:15 PM #4
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by tanya
Bo
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03-23-2008, 04:50 PM #5
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by Bo_Beck
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03-23-2008, 05:28 PM #6
For this country, Heaps is my new favorite. Choprock is probably second. Both are wonderful canyons. Make sure you are ready for both of them though; definitely not a beginner canyon...
Originally Posted by abirken
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A.J.
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03-23-2008, 06:24 PM #7
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by Bo_Beck
I've also witnessed major skill leaps when one clique infiltrates into anther. Usually both groups experience a big leap in skills if they enter with an open attitude.
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03-23-2008, 06:28 PM #8
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
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03-23-2008, 06:30 PM #9
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by tanya
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03-23-2008, 07:01 PM #10
Re: What's Your Favorite Canyon
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
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03-23-2008, 07:55 PM #11Originally Posted by CarpeyBiggs
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03-24-2008, 10:02 AM #12
I've done a bunch of California canyons, a bunch of Zion canyons including Heaps & Imlay. I've done Chop rock, Neon, and a bunch of others in Utah including a slew of skinnies over there in North Wash. I've also done canyons in Mexico and Spain and on the isle of Crete, so I've seen all kinds of canyons and I really loved them all. I don't think I've ever done a canyon I didn't fall in love with at the time!
There is one canyon however that I keep going back to over and over again, and every time I go it still feels super magic. It's definitely one of the most appealing canyons I've ever done.
I think If I had to choose a "favorite" I guess it would be this one. It's a relatively easy canyon too, with way more hiking than the actual canyoneering part of it. Here are some pictures ~ See if you can guess which one it is. Hint: it's in Utah!
http://picasaweb.google.com/advntrinxs/LikeMagicIf the shoe fits ~ pretend it doesn
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03-24-2008, 12:11 PM #13
I say we start a thread about the nastiest canyon water
Heaps. With ice box as a close second. Ice box would. I think I like Ice box so much because we setup a zip line across the long nasty swim at the last rappel. Which by the way was a bout 2wks from light sweet crude.
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03-24-2008, 12:47 PM #14Originally Posted by Randi
Picking a favorite is hard, but the Ram special... Neon and Choprock combo is probably my favorite trip to do. Neon from tri-burough bridges is so good, you leave thinking that is one of the best canyons ever... then you do Chop and Neon gets completely blown away. Heaps is up there with Chop. Kolob flowing is probably the most splashy fun. Frosted Flakes is by far the best really scary hard canyon I've done. Pandora's Box is up there for me, Hard Day Harvey is up there too. Doing some new stuff next month that I'm told could take some favorite canyon spots for me... we'll see.
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03-24-2008, 02:41 PM #15Originally Posted by shaggy125
Picking a favorite is hard, but the Ram special... Neon and Choprock combo is probably my favorite trip to do. Neon from tri-burough bridges is so good, you leave thinking that is one of the best canyons ever... then you do Chop and Neon gets completely blown away.
Ya know...I didn't feel that way when I did that combo. I loved Neon too, and didn't really feel like Chop blew it away. I guess I just really liked them both, and neither seemed better than the other. I'm weird I guess. 2nd time I did Chop is where I met you Eric! And I think that's the same w/e you guys did Frosted Flakes. You know what my favorite part of that whole entire trip was? This is gonna sound strange, but waking up at Fence canyon and hearing about 30 different birds singing in the early morning. To this day, I wish I had a recording of that! Talk about special! It was the coolest thing I'd ever heard on a camping trip! But as Ram has pointed out on occasion, I find joy in the simplest of things!
Heaps is up there with Chop. Kolob flowing is probably the most splashy fun. Frosted Flakes is by far the best really scary hard canyon I've done. Pandora's Box is up there for me, Hard Day Harvey is up there too. Doing some new stuff next month that I'm told could take some favorite canyon spots for me... we'll see.
I've not done Kolob or hard Day Harvey yet, but I have done Pandora's and that one was way special to me. I did it in the dead of winter, and with the combination of snow and ice it was phenomenal. I actually drove all the way out there from Calif. day after Christmas (10 hours) just to do that one canyon. Then I turned around and drove home the next day to unpack and repack for a hiking trip with my boyfriend! It was definately worth it!
I'm hoping to find a partner to descend Kolob with me over memorial weekend in May, before I continue on to Escalante. I'll post a note here when I start looking for partners - hopefully someone will bite! That's if the water conservancy hasn't started their release by then.
Kolob has been on my to do list ever since I first started doing canyons!
PS: I don't think I'd like doing hard scary canyons though! Tons of stemming and heinous up-climbs like what you guys did in Frosted Flakes doesn't appeal to me at all. Those be "crazy" boy canyons!
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03-24-2008, 02:41 PM #16
Anybody heard of Wheatgrass Canyon on Monte Cristo? It starts at Lightning Ridge and go's to Causey Resevoir. If your willing to work for it, you can bag a pretty be elk or deer, in this canyon, but be warned it's not nick named "Ass Kicker" for nothing. As far as liking it, it has great heritage for my family, we've hunted it for more than 60 years.
"You Sombitch's couldn't close an umbrella"
Sheriff Beuford T Justice
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03-24-2008, 02:44 PM #17
Light sweet crude you say? Did Spry a year or so ago and the water in the last few rappels was almost enough to make you dry heave. Shaggy will testify.
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03-25-2008, 02:26 PM #18
I try to look away.... but I can't....... must work. (And I think I like Heaps or Imlay or Kolob the best or maybe something else.... what were we talking about?)
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03-25-2008, 02:46 PM #19
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Originally Posted by Scott Card
I hear those 3 mentioned a lot. Are they because they are the prettiest or because they are the toughest 3 in Zion?
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03-25-2008, 02:58 PM #20Originally Posted by tanyaLife is Good
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