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[Iceaxe]

By CHARMAINE NORONHA Associated Press


SALOME CANYON, Ariz.

[Deathcricket]

Weird to post an article like that and not toss some pictures up. I wonder if the guy lost his camera in the excitement.

Edit: I'm gonna ask him I guess... seems weird to me.

[Iceaxe]

I've never done the Jug, but with any luck one day I'll get to do it.

[Brian in SLC]

Salome Jug is fun. Neat canyon, kinda takes you by surprise as its granite that's kind of an orangey pink color.

Tom and I did it on the front end of the first ACA rendezvous in Globe, a few moons ago... We flew into Phoenix, picked up a rental car, and had just a smattering of beta (which proved to be wrong on the final rappel length). First thing we noticed was there was a river crossing where our approach road went. Hmmm. Well, it was a rental car. Glad we didn't stall and I recall water coming in over the floorboards. Good thing we accidently got upgraded to a high clearance 2wd pick up truck (what are the odds?). We only brought a short piece of rope and ended up leaving it fixed, which, someone later in the trip picked up for us. Geez, my first single rope rappel in a canyon...ha ha...

Got dark on us as we were pushin' daylight. Hiking back to the car in the dark, a mountain lion screeched right behind us. Motivated us to hike quickly back to the car. Pretty funny. Met the crew at a dinner spot in Globe later that night. Ended up being a great trip.

[canyoncaver]

My first real canyon! A great one.