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Zion Canyoneering, October 8-13, 2006
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The approach hike starts from the Grotto up the Angle's Landing trail (solid red) to Scout Lookout (yellow diamond), then north
along the West Rim trail (solid red) before heading cross country. Three hours of scrambling and bushwhacking up and over a
pass (dashed red) brings you to the Imlay "Crossroads" (faint yellow diamond), a decent place to camp. Imlay ends on a rock
platform 120ft above the Zion Narrows (yellow diamond). Once down, you have a good hour of river walking (dashed red) to
get back out to the trail (solid red) where it's a short walk back to the shuttle bus stop at the Temple of Sinawava.
Shoulder of Angel's Landing
... and the Main Zion Canyon
Long way to go
The route is pretty much straight ahead along the ridge and then through the leftmost notch
Burnt log and colorful fall foliage
Lowering the packs down a chimney
Short narrows section above the campsite
Looks fun, but we wanted to stay dry until the next morning.
How can it possibly grow there?
There's our campsite ’Äì the cave up ahead
Plenty of room to spread out
and a nice sandy spot for sleeping
Pool and slot upstream from the cave
Stars in the narrow slit visible from the cave
Sunrise from inside the cave
Swimming through a debris choked pool
Beautiful and wet narrows section
Rigging one of the many rappels
The famous simul rap around the arch
You can just see a glimpse of the groove cut by ropes at the base of the column
Rigging the rappel
from a bolt to avoid scarring the rock further
Strange and beautiful coloring
in a deep dark cavern
A brief open area
in between the two narrows sections
Starting the final narrows section
Dan comes down a short slippery rap
Arriving at the Virgin River overlook
Notice the hiker down below
Dan standing at the brink
and looking far too casual
Rigging the final long rappel
Yahoo! A free rappel after the first 20 ft.
Down in the Virgin River narrows
Time to relax, just hiking from here
Back at the Tempel of Sinawava
just as the sun is disappearing
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Das Boot
Keyhole
Mystery
Imlay
Red Cave
Sunset
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