One of my favorite canyons in the Roost is Not Mindbender, a fork of the North Fork, or of the North-Middle Fork. A tasty one. Unfortunately, the last, dramatic rappel is a common place to find great amounts of webbing and odd anchors. My first trip here, we had pulled two bolts and installed a very large rock as a deadman anchor, in an almost perfect placement a few feet back from the lip. This anchor was good for a year or two, but then a wet spell set in, and the webbing became thrashed, and since the pothole was full of cold, mucky water, no one bothered to dig it up and replace the webbing. Various things were used as anchors, usually quite a ways away - leading to long pieces of trashy webbing, and dubious anchors. Here's a Trip Report from last January.

I'd been trying to get back there to clean things up for awhile, and finally had the chance. What would we find?

My friend Brian from Logan, who had just Walked across Utah on the Hayduke trail, and his buddy Brandt from Mexican hat, were the only ones foolish enough to sign up for this adventure. All photos this Latest Rave: (c) 2005 Brandt Hart, all rights reserved.

Brandt had a little trouble getting the camera out, so here's the first pic - the (sometimes) first rappel, about half way through Not Mindbender. Brian downclimbing, Tom providing a handline, if needed. We all downclimbed this without incident. The fun one was the slot after the first REAL rappel, which was much deeper than expected - A SWIM!!