Mystery Canyon in Winter! Zion National Park for Christmas!

Guest Rave: Steve Ramras. Indecision reigned. It was the Christmas day traditional insanity time. Who would go? Many of the past participants felt the reality of the danger of the thing. They waxed eloquently on it foolhardiness. In the end, the same people as last year filled up this year's permit. Where would we go?

Canyoneering, Mystery, Trip Report, Winter, ZionRamDecember 25, 2015mystery canyon, mystery, zion canyoneering, winter canyoneering, winter in zion

Mystery Canyon: A Downclimbing Challenge! Zion National Park, UT

Mystery Canyon. Oh my heck my favorite canyon in Zion... well, sorta. Last trip through Mystery, all of seven weeks ago, Amanda had mentioned that she and Chad had downclimbed almost every rappel during the previous summer...

Canyoneering, Downclimbing, Mystery, Trip Report, ZionTom JonesFebruary 7, 2015mystery canyon, mystery, zion, zion canyoneering, downclimbing

Mystery Canyon in the snow, Zion National Park, UT

The idea was to sneak in one more good canyon before the weather hit, and Diana really wanted Kolob, so we scheduled a trip Monday Tuesday, hiking out the narrows and... And then it snowed. Plenty of snow up top, so Kolob was not going to be a good choice. Second choice...

Canyoneering, Mystery, Trip Report, Zion, Zion Adventure Company, WinterTom JonesDecember 15, 2014mystery canyon, mystery, zion, zion canyoneering

Mystery Canyon in Winter, Zion National Park, UT

This is a silly sport. The whole thing. Sliding down ropes in remote places, risking death and destruction on a regular basis, for what?

Mountain of Mystery Summit and Canyoneering into the Narrows, Zion National Park

Once in awhile, a guys’s gotta climb a few summits. Zion offers quite a variety of difficult-to-access peaks, and our chosen pinnacle this weekend was the mysterious Mountain of Mystery.