Zion ACA Rendezvous April 2004
Mount Majestic and Hook Canyon (1)

ACA was having a Rendezvous in Zion. Sure, let's check it out. Since permits were hard to come up with, and the selection of canyons "in-condition" was small, we decided to check out the purported route up Mount Majestic from the first raps in Behunin.

The team for this adventure would be: Patti Rambert, making a guest appearance from So Cal, Sharon Talboys, Alicia Scotter and Tom Talboys.

An *early* morning start finds us on the shuttle, then off with the touristas preparing for their daring ascent of Angels Landing.

Perhaps we can sneak around from Behunin Pass to the ridge. NOT. Just a bit of a cliff in the way. Darn.

After losing an hour on that misadventure, we rapped down into the main canyon, and proceeded to the first rappels in Behunin. Then up the ridge above. Great views back down into the regular route in Behunin.

We made our way up the ridge, mostly pretty easy, toward the summit. Here, we sidehill the false summit on steep brush to make our way into the gully. Steep and brushy, but not too bad.

Mr. Talboys led the tough final pitch, 4th class or easy 5th. The rock was soooooooo bad, I was grateful to have a rope on. Couple of short pitches, right on the crest, threading through the trees - kinda like fun, only different. Finally, up on the summit plateau. The Manzanita was looking kind of manky due to some kinda fungus. We march over to the north summit block, and hike up toward the top.

Wow, what a beautiful summit! Actually, the middle summit block looks a little more difficult to ascend, and is listed on the map as being one foot higher. But, with time short, we disdained the actual summit and had to make do with the north.