Imlay. Oct 19, 2012

[Bootboy]

Just did Imlay today. Having rained all night, we were slightly concerned about the water situation. When we hit the crossroads, we noticed a flow of about 1-2cfs. We decided to go for it. The canyon was awesome. Flowing up to about 3 cfs lower in the canyon. What a special treat to do Imlay in such special conditions. We left the grotto before 5a.m. and we were back to the shuttle at about 5. We took our time but we had plenty of daylight. What a fantastic day.

[tcott]

Where are the pics?

[2065toyota]

I will get some posted

[Slot Machine]

Isn't today the 13th??

[yetigonecrazy]

Trip Reports from the future are awesome! And a little creepy. Will anything exciting happen in the next six days?! Im going to Vegas and banking on it if so

[Bootboy]

Oops, typo. Yes, the 13th

[2065toyota]

I didn't take nearly enough pictures but here a few. I know Eric has some more and will try and get him to post them or get them from him

[Iceaxe]

Imlay with flow.... I'm jealous....

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[Brian in SLC]

Wow...looks great!

[Mountaineer]

Wow...wish I was there. Nice.

[ilipichicuma]

Awesome!

[spinesnaper]

Back to the future. 13th, 19th--looks very cool in there. I don't think I have ever seen pictures of Imlay flowing. It looks amazing.

Ken

[Deathcricket]

flowing Imlay! very nice man! Glad you had such a great trip.

[tcott]

That looks great, the closest thing to flow I've have in Imlay was last April and it was barely a trickle. Great timing on this one .

[Slot Machine]

Wow!! Looks like a blast! Nice timing!

[MrAdam]

I'm jealous, Imlay looks epic while flowing!!

[Kuya]

Can't wait to hike Imlay! It must have been AWEmazing to see it is these conditions! Jealous!

[Deathcricket]

So I gotta know, how was the log soup sections with flow? Seems like the deeper it is the tougher it would be. And when I did with no flow it was like chest deep. Did you have to swim it?

[2065toyota]

So I gotta know, how was the log soup sections with flow? Seems like the deeper it is the tougher it would be. And when I did with no flow it was like chest deep. Did you have to swim it?

It was a full swim through it. I could feel logs floating as deep as my feet. I wouldn't really call it a swim. More of a grab anything with some substance with your hands and pull through. Couldn't use your legs much because there is so much underwater debris. It only took 5-10 minutes to get through. The worst was trying to get out of it onto the next jam as everything you grabbed and stepped onto just caved down into the water until you almost had a 2-3 foot tall log lip to try and climb

[Bootboy]

We also encountered a lot of unstable debris early on the canyon. We had to be very careful with each step. I bumped a stick in a log jam over my head on a chock stone and brought down several hundred pounds of debris. It buried my pack that I taken off to crawl under the chock stone. Very scary.