Leprechaun Canyon, November 3 and 4, 2001

Shane has been exploring a new slot canyon area down near Hanksville, and was getting ready to release it to the Circle of Few when, ahem, well, they got kinda stuck. Sounded intense, so it seemed like a good time to go check it out.

The days are short but the weather seems to be holding. We charge out of town at 5pm sharp for a change, and make a beeline for a bacon cheeseburger at Ray's.

 

Morning found us climbing the steep slickrock on the way to the Right Fork of Leprechaun Canyon.

About six hundred feet of climbing and two miles of pleasant walking and...

...we approach the head of the Right Fork.

Now at near the head, we explore up the tiny canyon into the limestone rim-rock. Nice little twisty thing.

Dave Black and Debbie Davis hanging out in the twisty slot.

And we drop into the canyon head. The canyon starts with nice, banded narrows. Deb Davis, Dave Black and Steve Lewis.

A couple of short rappels, some interesting squeeze, a few narrow places - all good stuff, but not many pictures taken. Here Dave Black starts down into a squeeze section.

Dave Black be da man!