Next day, on the dance card was Upper Stair. We did this a couple years ago on Freeze Fest, and found the upper part to be an excellent introduction to Mae West Canyoneering - although in this case it was more like Twiggy canyoneering. It contains a nice stretch of high, tight narrows that can be walked around, and can be done without packs. Here's the crew for the day: Rob Heineman, Aaron Ramras, Steve Ramras, Eric Godfrey and Tim Hoover.

Rob stops for lunch.

Into the narrow part. Some go high, some go low. Lots of options.

The canyon had several interesting sections. Here's Aaron in one of the open areas between tight sections.