Back To Monkey Business - West - West Butler
Quality Ratings
Ticks
|
11/20/2023
Long “monkey” hike thru canyon before the rappels. Very exciting canyon. Rappels are fun and provide a good challenge. Exit kinda stinks, but is fun in its own way. We did middle Lep immediately after from the park spot. |
|
11/05/2023
Dooooooooope canyon for the trip. Jack ripped his pants open and the first rap with the natural anchor down low was cool. IT bands are screaming. Denver Davis and Catherine (?) have a long drive to go. |
|
11/05/2023
Fantastic canyon, absolutely worth many repeat visits. A shuttle car would be nice in the future! Canyon starts right off with some fun down climbs and stems, entertaining and physical. Solid obstacles continued until the first 2 stage rappel. The rappel was beautiful, right into a dry pothole that I easily got out of, then down a great corkscrew slide to the 2nd stage. Note: I need to research the best way to set rope length on 2 stages like this where you can't see the bottom. The whole area in and beneath the rappel was my favorite, fantastic deep caverns and climbs. Also the incredible vertical elevator section!! 20 feet straight down at least. The boys all did great: Jack, Liam and Erik. Erik and I got some great partner assist practice in a dry pothole further down canyon. Jack's ass was out the entire time. The exit was intense, up the not-so-obvious-to-me crack. Super loose stuff, and remembering to peel off to the right on the slick rock expanse. My favorite canyon of this fall. |
|
10/14/2023
|
|
10/01/2023
Did it in Oct 2021 - I stayed in the keeper pothole for a while - otherwise good. Exit was goofy. |
|
05/19/2023
It was short approach to Monkey Business from the truck. Maybe 15-20 minutes. Canyon features a lot of down climbing, most of it was easy, but some was a little spicier. The rappels are towards the end of the canyon. First rappel (90 feet) in two stages, rope pull looked problematic, but ultimately was okay. Next rappel (27 feet) was into a pothole with ankle deep water. I climbed out of the pothole and rigged a Tyrollean traverse or zip line for the group and we shuttled the bags across before Steve, Ethan, and Marybeth zipped down. Everyone was thrilled, but especially Ethan. The final rappel (90 stages) in two stages. It took almost two hours to hike out and return to the truck. Lots of scrambling and some low fifth class climbing. |
|
03/02/2023
We did monkey business and middle lep same day. Fun |
|
07/01/2022
To practice pothole escapes |
|
05/04/2022
Canyon was dry other than knee-deep water in keeper pothole at the end. Bram built a 3 to 1 for Cam, Natalie, Torie, and myself off bulge in the rock. Lots of great stemming and rappelling for beginners. I would recommend it to anyone. |
|
02/19/2022
|
|
10/15/2021
Kevin, Kelly, Mike, Jenny. (First time meeting Jenny). Was a swimmer pothole. The ladies weren’t pleased, haha! |
|
10/12/2021
|
|
10/09/2021
With John. Really fun Canyon, but the heck out is very long. Next time leave a shuttle vehicle at the exit |
|
10/05/2021
|
|
09/30/2021
Date is a guess. Unexpectedly wet. Swam fully at last pothole. Got COLD. roxy Connor Brett Kim Nancy me. |
|
05/23/2021
Did with Kaden. Nice canyon that has fun downclimbing, but not too narrow compared to it's neighbors. The 2-stage rappel was nice off of a deadman. Would do again. |
|
04/30/2021
Took 6 of us 3.5 hours to get through. Exit had lots of sun exposure and was fairly steep. |
|
04/14/2021
|
|
03/25/2021
|
|
10/29/2020
Karl, William, and I -Got lost the first day and in wrong canyon. Very humbled and realized the high consequences of canyoneering if your not properly prepared. But the next day, we did it. Very smooth, fun adventure! Some sketchy anchors... Got the stoke for canyoneering this trip :) |
|
10/17/2020
Dana Laurie Adam Flo |
|
09/27/2020
|
|
09/01/2020
|
|
05/14/2020
With Jake, Sue & Carrie |
|
04/17/2020
|
|
11/03/2019
Completed with Jaime Pedersen and Debbie Young |
|
11/10/2018
Emily and Taylor Meadows, Bennett, Scotty, and Abbie. Super playful canyon with lots of fun elevator downclimbs and rappels. |
|
05/19/2018
|
|
10/02/2017
Lots of obstacles kept this canyon interesting. Fun day out even if a bit more water than we'd hoped for (chest deep? In the semikeeper) |
|
09/02/2017
Very dry. Very Hot. |
|
04/30/2017
Lee Katherine Goldstein, Hendrick Schmidt, Erek Burek, that asshole who almost killed Hendrick on the exit Of note: Hendrick saved me twice: Once getting stuck in a slot, also holding my hand to get to the last rappel where I almost crapped my pants |
|
03/11/2017
|
|
03/11/2017
Fun, but heinous rope pull from the 2-stage rappel, which can be split into 2 raps, which we did. Top anchor should probably be extended closer to top edge of rap. Exit is a grunt; we did it in the dark. |
|
04/24/2016
Tons of fun, though the ascent out had a few sketchy exposed sections that in my opinion are class 5. |
|
04/23/2016
|
|
03/24/2015
Completed with Tony, Matt, Q, and Kelton. First time using the guided rap. |
|
07/01/2013
|
|
04/20/2013
|
|
02/22/2011
Very fun and challenging. Not recommended for kids. 8 hours. |
