Austinfarnworth
Favorite Trips
Lower Jump Canyon, Heaps Canyon
Location
Mapleton, Utah
Member since 2016
Todo List
Lake Powell
Ticks
We did quandary direct from the top and found the canyon mostly dry with a few pools waist deep and below. No wet-suit needed at this time. The first pothole was very deep and required a few full potshots thrown to make ascending out possible. Potshots were needed a few other times in the canyon as well. We used the sandtrap three different times in the canyon and it helped us significantly because of the nearly dry conditions. Not a good canyon to do on a hot day, we were roasting with a high of 78 degrees so I can't imagine doing the canyon in warmer weather.
Amazing, fun and long canyon!
Group of 6, it took us 3 and a half hours. Great level of flow for enjoying the scenery of the canyon.
Did this canyon as an evening canyon and only had to do one rappel. The rest were straight forward downclimbs. A pretty lame canyon to be honest but the hike out is beautiful and well worth the time in cooler temperatures.
completely full of water and a blast! No issue with keeper pothole and the crux was definitely the tight high-stemming right before the end of the canyon. I definitely will come back to this one.
It was a very cold rainy may day but we knew this canyon didn't have much flash flood potential so we went for it with Calder, Maddi, Kelley and my wife. It started snowing a little bit on us while we were in there. 8 rappels
We went down little blue john and continued down the wash to the Ralston chockstone and reversed up canyon to the main fork where we up climbed the canyon and returned to the car in about 8 hours. The middle fork was completely dry and there was a few shallow pools past the Ralston chockstone.
We did the middle fork and ran into a pot hole full of water near the end of middle and with no obvious natural anchor it made it quite difficult to get across without falling in.
We attempted Telephone Canyon with two 70M dynamic climbing ropes and assumed that because we were climbers, a slot canyon would be easy. On the first rappel we rappelled too far and around a corner a full 200ft down and got our rope stuck. We didn't have ascenders so I tied into one side and my brother used just a gri gri to ascend the 200ft back up. When he reached the top he saw that the rope had been sawing through on the edge and it was almost halfway cut through! Luckily we had the two ropes tied together and he only had to cut 4ft off the end of the rope. Lesson learned: bring ascenders and static rope. We quickly got on our way and started down the cold and snowy telephone canyon, exiting luckily before dark. We had Olivia, Kirby, Elsie and Kenna with us.
Medieval Chambers was my first technical slot canyon. While on a trip with my fiance and her extended family, I planed on doing the morning glory arch simul-rappel and having some of them join me. I used screenshot satellite images to find the canyon and we successfully did the canyon with 70M dynamic climbing ropes and simul-rappeled the arch
Comments
23 CommentsLower PINTAC Canyon - King Mesa
2020-05-27We did full PINTAC from the top this fall. The up offwidth up climbs aren't as bad as I had heard th...
Buckeyes Canyon - Eastern Reef
2020-04-14It's worth noting that the webbing gets cut out of this canyon all the time, so it's definitely not ...
Big Tony - King Mesa
2019-10-30We did Big Tony on the 19th of October and we ended up starting the canyon at the end of the X-secti...
Boundary Canyon - Zion West Side
2019-10-09It looks like you need to call 435-673-4983 and sign a Recreational License Agreement in order to do...
Paradiso - Bullfrog
2019-09-01Anyone going through anytime soon should replace the anchors because all of them are two years old a...
Delano Peak - County Highpoint
2019-09-01We made it up to the trail-head in a tiny Nissan Versa Note, so it's doable without high-clearance, ...
Quandary Canyon - San Rafael Swell
2018-04-22Currently the water is very low so I wouldn't bring wet-suits until the next big storm hits. Pothol...
Little Bull Canyon - White Roost
2018-03-13The chockstone used for the first rappel split in half while we were using it, so a new anchor will ...
Woody Canyon - Trachyte Area
2018-02-11We did this canyon twice at low water levels within the last month and have had quite a great time. ...
Kolob Canyon - Zion West Side
2017-12-12Is Kolob Creek doable anytime in the spring?
Psycho Damage Canyon - Bullfrog
2017-11-28We did Burr Slot in preparation for this one and if you didn't have an issue in Burr, you shouldn't ...
Burr Slot - Poison Spring
2017-11-20If you know the beta for the crux silos, it is really not that bad. The silo crossing is airy but e...
The Squeeze - San Rafael Swell
2017-09-01The water is currently at about half capacity. There are plenty of keepers to deal with though all b...
Pleiades Canyon - Moab
2017-08-20Tried this canyon again in great conditions. Wetsuit was definitely needed and one anchor had to be ...
Witch's Cauldron - Trachyte - Land of Oz
2017-07-28The canyon flash flooded the day before we got there and it was loaded with water. No wet suit was n...
Misery (Fat Mans) East / West Forks - Zion East Side
2017-07-19I did the east fork last week with a group of 13 and It is a killer hike! I can see why so many do t...
Pine Creek - Zion Main Canyon
2017-07-19I did pine creek last week with a group of 12 and we managed to get through the technical section in...
Burro Wash - Capitol Reef
2017-07-19On 6/10/17 I did the canyon with a group of 6 and did the grunt up the reef is 100+ degree weather! ...
The Black Hole of White Canyon - Hite
2017-06-25Water levels are pretty low right now. We ran into a keeper pothole! I had no idea the black hole ha...
Pleiades Canyon - Moab
2017-06-09conditions now are pretty sketchy now, a lot of snow-melt coming down with a swift flow. We did the ...
Misery (Fat Mans) East / West Forks - Zion East Side
2017-05-11Can spring run off make the section where misery enters parunaweap canyon dangerous?
Blue John Canyon - Robbers Roost
2017-04-16We went down LBJ with a group of 6 people to the Ralston chockstone and reversed the canyon finishin...
Neon Canyon - Escalante
2016-12-18Do you have any info on the"full meal deal" route in neon Canyon?