The end of summer was pretty wet around here. Towards the end of September, I organized an Escalante Fest, and invited some folks. Larry Halford from Winthrop, Washington and Chris Hood from Vancouver, BC came down for some Zion Classics, and then headed out to Escalante to meet the other Festers...

All this coincided with me finally biting the bullet and getting a digital SLR - so many of the shots here are my new rig, but I haven't read the instruction manual yet, so there's some degree of just plain playing around with it, and I did not bring it into the canyons with me (except one). The other consequence of this is that the pictures are BIGGER (and hopefully, better). Enjoy.

Sunrise and Moon set on Fifty Mile Mountain.

Coming out for the event were Kari, Bryan and Torre Moe-Hoffman, recently converts to westernism.

First up: Jungle Love. Here we are plunging into the 'warm-up pool'.

Bette Wise-Steffen from Salt Lake showing good form.

Kari swimming the upper waterfall.