Our Close to the Summer - Zions

Our first trip on Thursday (9/18) was in Mystery Canyon. Here is a group picture (left to right) Dan and Heather Pettingill (California), Ron (Denver), Me, Devin, and Rudy (New York).


That is our Canyon 'Mystery'


Me Climbing down a log in Mystery.


Looking up a hill that I don't want to climb.


Stemming over some water.


Here is a video of the final rapell in Mystery. It was one of my favorite rapells.


There is Rudy going down the final rapell.


Me and Devin rapelling out of Mystery and into the Narrows.

Oure second trip (9/19) in Spry. Devin, Me, Frank (Vegas), Bill (SLC), Jim (Canyon Leader, SLC).

After walking up a bunch of hills and approaching the top to get into the canyon there was this wall with a bunch of petroglyphs on it. If I was an indian this place would have been perfect to have my spiritual moment....

We rapelled down here, but the view looking out was incredible, pictures never do it justice.

There is Devin at the top of one of the raps.

This is by far the coolest picture of anyone rapelling! This was the last rapell out of Spry. Oh, and yeah that's me. :)

Our last trip was in Birch Hollow, which comes out Orderville (lots of people do Orderville). We didn't get a group picture that day, but we went with: Dan and Heather Pettingill (California), Alan and Megan Pryke (Australia), Me and Devin, Jill and Mike (don't remember last names, from Denver), David McNay (SLC), and Ari Ewell (SLC).

Because of the large group, we set up the rope with what is called a stone knot so we could rapell 2 at a time and also took 2 ropes, it was rapell after rapell. That is me and Ari rapelling at the same time.

Devin doing some down climbing.

All of us piling in the truck to go get the other truck we left at the top.