Back To Upper Black Box - San Rafael Swell
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05/24/2025
Comando Phil completed it in record time. Weather was PERFECT and the down climbing was way better than anticipated. Water was beautiful and log jams were minimal. Dutch flat tires waited for us at the car and beers to follow. Great day. Oh yeah, ran 20 miles before doing the canyon. Oops |
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05/24/2025
Beautiful fairyland princess perfect water world. Preferred route downclimbs were so fun and a great intro. Erik is training for a marathon and so ran 20 MILES this morning and got back to camp at like 10. Insanity. Canyon was unreal beautiful, only at 5 cfs mellow style. There were two lengths that felt very church like... completely silent wading through at chin deep clear water between steep tight canyon walls. I climbed out at one point toward the end and got on a 15' log and jumped back in the water. Beautiful, not to be forgotten. |
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06/06/2024
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07/30/2021
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05/01/2021
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08/10/2020
Jacq, Elena, Caroline - Very low water when we did this, so only a couple spots where we had to swim. Very enjoyable, easy Canyon. Had a little trouble finding the rappel but once we did it was straightforward. |
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08/08/2020
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07/27/2020
the Chains off the rock for the first real rappel were very hard to find. We started at noon and probably spend an hour looking for them. we found a group of bolts that allowed us to safely get down about 40 feet to the cliffside where the chains lay. BIIIG rappel to the sand at the bottom. Then 3 hours of slowly shuffling thru the river. Flow was approx 50 cfs. Got back to the car at 4pm. No wetsuit needed as it was pretty warm. |
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07/18/2020
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06/05/2020
We did the short route didn't really enjoy it, wanted to do the 60m rappel but it wasnt up to par. Not free hanging or exciting at all, also not 60m |
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08/05/2019
w/ pa, T, zaz |
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06/13/2018
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08/20/2016
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07/10/2016
Short Route. |
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06/25/2016
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06/25/2016
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06/21/2016
short route |
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05/28/2016
Did preferred route. Rappel from ledge was under 100'. |
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07/03/2015
Did this when the flows were around 20 cfs. We only did one ~45 ft rappel to get into the canyon. There was a chimney before the river that could have been rappelled but we down climbed it. The water was warm enough to not need a wetsuit. The log jam mentioned in the route overview has been washed out. This is a very relaxing canyon and definitely one I will do again! |
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05/01/2015
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05/17/2014
Loved this! Floated most of the way down, kept warm enough in my wetsuit |
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05/15/2010
with Tony |
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08/28/2009
This is one of my very favorite canyons in the SRS. Having grown up in Castle Dale, the SRS was my back yard playground! One of the neatest places in the Northern SRS is the Mexican Mountain area where the black box canyons are. |
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05/01/2002
This was my first canyoneering experience. I was a freshmen in college and a school teacher from CEU took a group of us through this canyon. Needless to say, it was the beginning of a LOVE for hiking canyons! |
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05/23/0020
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05/09/0020
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