Zion Bakefest: Turkey Canyon
It was hot.
The sun, courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sunrise on the West Temple, photo James Burr.
That's why this Festival was called the Bakefest. So we did canyons that had water in them, that would be cool. Thankfully, The Narrows opened up the week before we got there, so we could do Imlay, Mystery and other, classic, pretty wet canyons.
Sunday, after a great time in Imlay Canyon, we went over to do Turkey Canyon (not its real name). This is a canyon about 2 hrs from Springdale that I had not done before, but heard a lot about. So off we go.
The first set of pics here is from James Burr, who went through with his daughter Becky, Ryan Cornia and a couple other people on Thursday.
People enjoying Turkey Canyon
People enjoying Turkey Canyon
People enjoying Turkey Canyon
People enjoying Turkey Canyon
Those guys having fun in Turkey
More fun
People enjoying Turkey Canyon
Wait, these are my people. Our crew was Jim, Bette, Nancy and Chris, all from the Salt Lake Area. We went Sunday. We were tired. It was hot. We hiked to the top. It was really hot up there, in the sun. We walked and climbed down into the canyon, did some rapping. Here's Chris rapping into a pool. Nice little fluted rappel. Nice, cool pool.
Chris enjoying floating in the pool.
Nancy gingerly rapping into the pool.
Bette rapping in, Jim looking down!
As close as we got to a group shot: The Three Gals: Chris, Nancy and Bette
Jim jumping in. Ah – refreshing…
Chris decided to jump too, and does the GRIM CRAWL OF DEATH to get to a jumping point.
Well, maybe not so grim.
And INTO the drink.
And that's about it for pictures. It was just too hot to take more. The canyon is pretty good. Then we went back to camp, packed up, and drove home. Another Canyon Festival complete, big smiles all around, all the people came back from trips alive and kicking, new friends were made, new plans sown.
'Till next time...
