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Thread: Kolob Canyon
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08-13-2013, 11:11 AM #21
Great TR and video, thanks for sharing Bob! Perfect timing too, doing Kolob this weekend (weather and flow permitting of course). I took the MIA exit out of Boundary Canyon about a month ago, so uh, yeh, still kinda sucks I guess Hand lines still up at the top?
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08-13-2013 11:11 AM # ADS
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08-13-2013, 12:21 PM #22
Your welcome, we must have made the bees angry just before u came, and just to bring down the hype on the MIA, it's really not that bad.
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08-13-2013, 12:56 PM #23
Lisa, thanks for the kind words! I'm stoked for you.
Please don't make the same mistake we made; underestimating the distance beween the last big rappel and the MIA exit. It is a loooong way to fight a 7mm suit. Figure out a way to stay warm, and not fight your wetsuit the entire way.
Steph has a sore hip from Checkerboard, so we were moving slow. We had been wearing our 7mm suits for 9 hours by the time we arrived at the MIA, and were very tired and somewhat dehydrated, mostly from fighting the resitance of the wetsuits.
If I had it to do over today, no question, I'd get a separate wetsuit top/bottom and take the top off after the last big rap. I might even consider wearing 3mm on the legs, but I run warm.
HA! I'm pretty sure it was Tyler stepping on the door of the nest that pissed them off.
5 guys in your group, based on the footprints? With a 6 AM start?
If the MIA is "not that bad", I'd hate to see what else you do in your free time.
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08-13-2013, 01:11 PM #24
Always a quandary. Usually at least "top down" for the Kolob walk-out, but sometimes better to just take it off, and not worry too much about the couple of splashers between the last big rap and Boundary. From Boundary (big flat rock) to the MIA exit, there are usually two places deeper than the belly button, so usually just go without there, but a good idea to drybag the pack 'cause that second one is sometimes a swimmer.
Although - if I was a-gonna step on a beez nest, I would want as much neoprene in place as possible...
Tom
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08-13-2013, 05:55 PM #25
When we did Kolob we just took the wetsuits off a little ways after the last rap. There were a couple swims after that, but we just gritted our teeth and went with them. I definitely didn't regret it. I hate hiking in a wetsuit.
--Cliff
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08-13-2013, 08:23 PM #26
I ditched the drysuit after the last rap. I remember one more small rap into a swimmer, and the rest were just waders. But my last time through there had zero flow.
Although I have no body fat whatsoever, I seem to tolerate the cold well. The trick is to go into the water either naked or with just quick drying shorts on...that way the air dries you out quickly and you warm up as you get moving again. All those I've gone through pools with that wear a shirt of some type, and keep it on, get chilled.The end of the world for some...
The foundation of paradise for others.
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08-13-2013, 09:33 PM #27
Drysuits are so much nicer to hike in :-)
After the last big rap I just tie the upper part of the drysuit around my waist and stroll down canyon.
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08-15-2013, 02:18 PM #28
We did Kolob yesterday. For anyone who is interested, the yellow jacket nest is about 1/3 mile below the waterfall. It's in a box elder log about 8" around and devoid of bark. There is a low spot in the middle of the log that is tempting to step over. Don't. Exit the watercourse to the left and just walk around it.
We had a full 3cfs and it was a blast. The water is a little murky though. A few of the anchors could use some love. Rap 2 especially.
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08-18-2013, 06:09 PM #29
Wow, really wish I had paid closer attention to the location of the yellow jackets (bees?) nest...4 of us were stung repeatedly by those vicious f###ers and it hurts!!! I'd rather go up and down the MIA trail 3 times than experience that again. Flow was probably about 2cfs, enough to make it fun and exciting and a great day in a beautiful canyon!
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08-18-2013, 09:38 PM #30
Wow, those bees are becoming infamous! Maybe someone should take a can of wasp spray?
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08-19-2013, 10:04 AM #31THE MOST TALKED ABOUT CANYONEERING TRIP OF 2017 - WEST CANYON VIA HELICOPTER.
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08-19-2013, 12:34 PM #32
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08-19-2013, 01:43 PM #33THE MOST TALKED ABOUT CANYONEERING TRIP OF 2017 - WEST CANYON VIA HELICOPTER.
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08-19-2013, 03:29 PM #34
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08-19-2013, 04:16 PM #35THE MOST TALKED ABOUT CANYONEERING TRIP OF 2017 - WEST CANYON VIA HELICOPTER.
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08-19-2013, 09:31 PM #36
lol run forest run!!!!! at least im not alone in my bee horror story.
I could fall off that and live.
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08-20-2013, 06:17 AM #37
Ok so the getting the rope bag from the bees was way to close to this...
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08-20-2013, 08:45 AM #38THE MOST TALKED ABOUT CANYONEERING TRIP OF 2017 - WEST CANYON VIA HELICOPTER.
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08-21-2013, 12:22 PM #39I could fall off that and live.
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