Ouray, Colorado - Bear Creek

[mmac]

Here are some photographic highlights from my personal favorite canyon of the Ouray trip.

The entire album can be found here.


Destination: "The Dream"


Mark on the approach hike


View of the falls we'll be traveling through later in the day!


Prepping some gear after suiting up


Incredible flow in some places


Sweet rocks are everywhere!


Loving this canyon


More amazing waterfalls


Lunch time!


Setting up a new anchor beside the falls. The other one was either removed, or washed out... Seemed to be a good placement for the pull though.


Rapping through waterfalls


The result of trying to "test the flow."


Randi rocking this rappel!




Randi and the infamous "missing glove"


Mark on rappel






Some of the incredible narrows at the end of the canyon.

[ratagonia]

Awesome!!! Tom

[Cirrus2000]

Wow - what a gorgeous place!

I love this shot:

[Sombeech]

Another awesome report. Gorgeous

[Mark Schnupp]

Sweet pics, Mike. Look forward to hooking up with you again and knocking out some of those AZ canyons.

M

[accadacca]

Win!

[heliski2]

Love your awesome photos. How much time did the canyon take?

[iceman]

Any of you experienced canyoneers wanna take my wife and I down this canyon on the weekend of the 24th of September????

[josephP]

Wow great pictures. Did you rappell down all those waterfalls in that 3rd picture?

[mmac]

Love your awesome photos. How much time did the canyon take?

Thanks! If I remember, this canyon took about 6 hours from car to car.

Any of you experienced canyoneers wanna take my wife and I down this canyon on the weekend of the 24th of September????

I can't... I'll be busy that weekend.

Wow great pictures. Did you rappell down all those waterfalls in that 3rd picture?

Thanks, and yes - we did end up rappelling down all of those waterfalls, and more!

[Mark Schnupp]

Any of you experienced canyoneers wanna take my wife and I down this canyon on the weekend of the 24th of September????

This was my favorite canyon as well, and I'm not marginalizing the others because they were fantastic! Bear Creek is truly unique, it really had an exotic feel to me.

I would love to join you for this trip, however I think the season had passed. Like Mike said, we were in the water for at least 5 hours, and although the canyon is orientated well for sun exposure, it was COLD-and that was in mid August. To go in now you would have to be way cold tolerant and dressed for it. With that said, this canyon is not to be missed, and there are killer hot springs 10 minutes away from the exit.

Post pics if you go.

M

[J+B]

Video feat. Bear Creek, from a few years ago when I visited Ouray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuVguqXf68


I reckon Bear was prolly my favourite in the area.