It's not canyoneering, but man cannot live by canyoneering alone. So I took a few days off over Christmas to visit with the family, first stopping in Reno to visit my friends Larry and Karen.
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I've always been interested in those canyons cutting into the Red Rocks escarpment outside Red Rocks, and Lost Wages resident Dick Shear invited us down for the weekend.
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Ms Scotter kept insisting that her Irish heritage would eventually produce a visit from the elusive namesake of Leprechaun Canyon. Sunday we headed up to find the actual Left Fork of Leprechaun Canyon, and in the woods below the canyon mouth… what do we see?
After a quick lunch in the sun, Dave gives us the beta on Left Fork. Dave and Deb go off exploring.
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.
Sunday we visited The Chasm of Doom, aka Sandthrax Canyon, to see where our friends got stuck.
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Deadman anchors have been discussed for awhile, usually as an anchor of last resort. It goes like this:
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A few years ago, I stuck some bolts in the difficult, central section of Quandary Canyon in the San Rafael Swell, thinking I was doing the world a service. Oy veh!
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A bit of that fall nip in the air, we headed down to the Escalante to try our hand at Neon. Oft targeted, not so oft succeeded on, Neon requires some good weather to do the moderately long approach and exit, and have enough prime time to enjoy the canyon.
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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.
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We'd heard rumors - a great canyon in the heart of Zion, big, bolt free, and unknown. Dead Englishman? How did it get that name?
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Recent Monsoon activity had left the canyon totally topped off with water - wet and cold. In fact, with a fully swimmer pothole before the first drop.
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Finally out of town for another zip down to Zion. The monsoon had set in and denied us the previous weekend, but the weather report was favorable so…
These guys, Michelle and Charly, invited me to enjoy some of the warm spring weather down in Excalante. The best laid plans… But I figured, even with a crappy weather forecast, since their drive was twice mine, I really needed to show.
Ah, finally spring has sprung and Brian and I head down to the desert to *******. Oh yeah, this is a secret spot, so I can’t tell ya where. Here’s Brian stretching some of the cobwebs out of the muscles, and packing his 6 quarts of water for our daring descent of ****** canyon.
Davis is notorious as the last known location of Everett Ruess. The lower part is now awash under Floyd Elgin Dominy Reservoir, but the rest is open for adventure. The middle is often visited by backpackers, but the upper is a very interesting slot.
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Studying the map, we spied a likely looking wash headed directly from the road to the correct place in Harris wash, so we took it. A convenient parking place next to a fence and cattleguard was in the right place, so...
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(Peekaboo, Spooky and Brimstone) are one of the most visited spots in the area, the upper sections of these same canyons have escaped common noteriety. So we pulled out our Steve Allen #3 book and drove out the Cat's Pasture / Early Weed Bench road and set up to drop into upper Brimstone.
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