It is Day 6 of 9 for Doug, Penny, Dave, Brandon and I. We've already had a great week of canyons, many of which we haven't seen before. We'd seen some really good stuff, but it was weekend menu that really had me salivating. With a few hours to kill before making the approach hike down into Fence Canyon in the cool hours of the afternoon, we decided to make a half day out of Egypt 2.
Ryan Foster Lee made the epic drive in the middle of the night to join us on just a couple hours of sleep, and rounded out the gang for the day. After Penny made the first introduction, I greeted him warmly with a partially consumed can of raviolis from the night before, and a lukewarm rockstar. You only get one chance to make a first impression, afterall.
After a few handshakes and hellos, we headed down to the Egypt Bench. The Egypt canyons are some of the easiest to access in the entire Escalante Canyon system. And let's be honest, that is perhaps the most attractive quality E2 has going for it. It is worth the effort, but not much more. As Malia would say, the work to fun ratio for this canyon is pretty high. We made the terribly long and arduous ten foot approach hike to the entry rappel, we set the 300 foot rope, and headed down.
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Penny again, making the huge rappel. It's a long ways down.
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Brandon starting down the headwall. Going shirtless in E2 is a great way to naturally exfoliate.
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Ryan on rappel. I kinda liked the harsh light on this one.
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Ryan is a pretty tall guy. He is about to meet a pretty narrow canyon.
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Egypt II 1 - Egypt II 2 - Egypt II 3
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