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04-22-2008, 10:43 AM #1
Subway 4/19
My first canyon of the year. The original trail report is 8 pages essay. I will write a small cliff notes version. Sorry no pictures. When I get my friend
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04-22-2008 10:43 AM # ADS
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04-22-2008, 12:21 PM #2
Wow! Interesting way to do the Subway.
Ya gotta try and get the pictures. I would love to see that much water.
Great write-up and I hope you get back there agian. I never get tired of that place.
ps: What happen to the shoeless guy?
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04-22-2008, 12:29 PM #3
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You are such a character! I have a feeling you are going to be a blast at the parties.
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04-22-2008, 12:44 PM #4Originally Posted by Felicia
Yes I need pics because it is worthless without pics. I think it will be a while before I get them though. I'd go back today if I could.
Originally Posted by Felicia
Just then a group of two coming down catches us. They are not wearing wetsuits. One has a tank top the other a cotton shirt, but at least both were wearing quick drying swimsuits. One of them is not wearing shoes. I think he must be warming up his cold feet in the warm sun and rock like me. He comes over to me. We talk about the hike. He tells me he lost his shoes at the last water fall trying to do what we did. WTF did you just say! What you lost your shoes and now you are going to have to hike out barefoot? Yes. Damn . . . Well good luck. We rap down through the arch to a pool waist deep left down canyon, and spot the noobs as they descend. I and my friend wait in the corridor helping out the noobs. But my feet soon get cold. I head down canyon to find the warmth.
We pass bottom up hikers that are heading up or heading back. We see the shoeless canyoneer resting his aching feet; sorry I need my shoes for the hike out. Two-by-two we pass some of the college freshmen. Interesting how they segregated themselves into male & female pares hiding in the bushes, college freshmen. The freshmen pass us running, but we continue pushing on at our good clip. Now we pass all the freshmen huddled around resting on some boulders. Again we just push on at our pace.
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04-22-2008, 01:25 PM #5I unwind my panties and reach for my sunglasses.
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04-22-2008, 01:38 PM #6
Great TR man, very entertaining, thanks!
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04-23-2008, 03:03 PM #7
Nice TR man. I like your style of writing, very entertaining. I've never been in it with that kind of flow, sounds fun. I'm glad the shorty was ok for you. I would have felt bad if you froze your ass off.
You forgot to cover the exit path, IMO that's one of the harshest parts of the trip. Of course I'm in poor shape, so it's probably not that bad for others.
If you want to post your 8 page report, I'm sure a couple of us (myself included) would read it. Sounds awesome.
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04-23-2008, 03:28 PM #8Originally Posted by deathcricket
Like the good distance runners that we are we pick a good pace, not a fast running pace like the college freshmen. We stop to only take pictures of the Red Waterfall Cascades, miss the dino tracks (shoot, have to save that for another time).
We pass several bottom up hikers, that are heading up or heading back. We see the shoeless canyoneer resting his aching feet; sorry I need my shoes for the hike out. Two-by-two we pass the noobs. Interesting how they segregated themselves into male & female pares hiding in the bushes, college freshmen. The noobs pass us running, but we continue pushing on at our good clip. Again we pass the noobs huddled around resting on some boulders. Again we just push on at our pace.
After a long hike out we come to the base of the black volcanic cliff. I
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04-24-2008, 12:04 AM #9
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Re: TR: Subway 4/19
[quote=trackrunner]I wish I hadn
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04-24-2008, 06:18 AM #10
Re: TR: Subway 4/19
Originally Posted by trackrunner
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04-24-2008, 07:17 AM #11
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Re: TR: Subway 4/19
Originally Posted by Bo_Beck
Shaun - Is that boulder gone you mentioned? Do we need to update our trail report of Das Boot?
I don't even want to think of Das Boot without Neoprene socks let alone Wetsuits!
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04-24-2008, 09:28 AM #12
If I'm a bettin' man, which I am not, I would bet that he stemed out past that boulder when he fell in the pool. Isn't that boulder directly below the down climb? Again, my guess is that he went horizontal a couple of feet and cleared the boulder when he fell.
Great write up. I swear I can't believe that folks do this hike this time of year without a wet suit. The wet suit makes it enjoyable so you can actually look around and see the beauty. When you are frozen, you have one thought in mind, if you even have a thought in mind, and that is when is this stupid hike over.Life is Good
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04-24-2008, 10:36 AM #13Originally Posted by Scott Card
For comparison this is tanya's photo off her site. I had to hold my breath and swim under that boulder. That's how high the water is.
Originally Posted by Scott Card
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04-24-2008, 10:41 AM #14
Re: TR: Subway 4/19
Originally Posted by Bo_Beck
Originally Posted by tanya
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04-29-2008, 02:54 PM #15
Hey, Thanks for the TR. I plan on doing the Subway this weekend. I did it a couple years ago when the flow was over 1,500 CFS out of North Fork. Here are some pictures and our TR.
http://canyonwiki.com/wiki/index.php/The_Subway
Here's a picture and video of keyhole when we did it.
http://canyonwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Keyhole_Falls
can you tell me if there was just as much water when you did it?
pictures would be helpful.
Thanks
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04-29-2008, 03:35 PM #16Originally Posted by UtahAdventureGuide
Note the Wildcat trail/Northgate trail not all the snow had melted, vast majority in the sun area had. The tree covered areas still had some snow. Walking in the slick rock drainage areas had a small trickle. There would be more snow higher up in elevation. Only recently has Southern Utah had exceptionally warm tempters. When we went it was the first 80 day for St. George, most of the other times it was 70 or high 60's. More of the snow is melting now; how much, I don
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04-29-2008, 03:54 PM #17Because of the current and water I'd advise not to down-climb or jump the rappels. If there was current through the narrow section (2nd technical section) skip on it and go up high on the bypass, left side canyon. The rappel in there has a hydraulic (weak at the time, but scary when not expecting it) and retreat back up canyon was impossible,
For us, it was less risky to do some crazy highball retreats up the side of the canyon than it was to try to get down Keyhole falls. It was some really sketchy upclimbing, and to this day is probably the most dangerous thing I have ever done in my life.
That being said - if anyone does ever get near keyhole falls and sees the water is too high, retreat back and there is a ledge on the lefthand side (left-hand when you are going back upcanyon) with a big tree growing out of it about 20 feet up there that is an adequate bivy spot if you are absolutely unable to get past the keyhole falls.
That being said - sounds like it's in prime conditions!-----
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05-04-2008, 07:00 PM #18
Re: TR: Subway 4/19
[quote=trackrunner]After my meltdown I unwind my panties and reach for my sunglasses. Oh-no! I lost it in the waterfall. We look and soon realize my expensive sunglasses are long gone (If you find them, I want them back it was a birthday present from my wife). I
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05-05-2008, 11:52 AM #19
Re: TR: Subway 4/19
[quote=UtahAdventureGuide][quote=trackrunner]After my meltdown I unwind my panties and reach for my sunglasses. Oh-no! I lost it in the waterfall. We look and soon realize my expensive sunglasses are long gone (If you find them, I want them back it was a birthday present from my wife). I
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05-05-2008, 12:42 PM #20
Re: TR: Subway 4/19
Originally Posted by UtahAdventureGuide
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