Once in awhile, a guys’s gotta climb a few summits. Zion offers quite a variety of difficult-to-access peaks, and our chosen pinnacle this weekend was the mysterious Mountain of Mystery.
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We'd heard rumors - a great canyon in the heart of Zion, big, bolt free, and unknown. Dead Englishman? How did it get that name?
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A true classic. The gang assembled after kid duty on Saturday and Sunday, up for a little more physically challenging journey.
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Recent Monsoon activity had left the canyon totally topped off with water - wet and cold. In fact, with a fully swimmer pothole before the first drop.
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Finally out of town for another zip down to Zion. The monsoon had set in and denied us the previous weekend, but the weather report was favorable so…
These guys, Michelle and Charly, invited me to enjoy some of the warm spring weather down in Excalante. The best laid plans… But I figured, even with a crappy weather forecast, since their drive was twice mine, I really needed to show.
Ah, finally spring has sprung and Brian and I head down to the desert to *******. Oh yeah, this is a secret spot, so I can’t tell ya where. Here’s Brian stretching some of the cobwebs out of the muscles, and packing his 6 quarts of water for our daring descent of ****** canyon.
He said: "Come ski the Haute Route with the finest friends you've never met." He said: "Ski Here Now."
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Kings Peak. Famous, popular, incredible? Kings is located in the Uintas, near the Wyoming border, and at 13,528 feet is the highest peak in Utah. As such, it draws incredible attention.
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Davis is notorious as the last known location of Everett Ruess. The lower part is now awash under Floyd Elgin Dominy Reservoir, but the rest is open for adventure. The middle is often visited by backpackers, but the upper is a very interesting slot.
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Studying the map, we spied a likely looking wash headed directly from the road to the correct place in Harris wash, so we took it. A convenient parking place next to a fence and cattleguard was in the right place, so...
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(Peekaboo, Spooky and Brimstone) are one of the most visited spots in the area, the upper sections of these same canyons have escaped common noteriety. So we pulled out our Steve Allen #3 book and drove out the Cat's Pasture / Early Weed Bench road and set up to drop into upper Brimstone.
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As the date approached, I rounded up a partner for Saturday also, and the weather report looked good. Not so the weather in Salt Lake as I hit the road Friday night. The snowstorm did not let up till past Nephi and got me worried.
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Had to get out of town! When the weather is consistently cold, the best way to get out is to make plans far ahead with people you don't know real well - then you have to go. So I made plans far in the future with Charlie Oliver from Boulder, who I had known for a while but never done a trip with. Since he was driving from Boulder, my chickening out just because it was too friggin' cold was not an option...
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Had to get out of town! Three weeks of cold weather and no going south makes the rat a grouchy boy. Weather reports called for cold and sunny, so it looked like staying in the sun by exploring the rugged terrain up on the San Rafael Reef would be the ticket...
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So, we’re in the Escalante out of Harris Wash, and there’s this area called Red Breaks. It’s really no formal canyon, as much as a series of them. The rock formations are very colorful.
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