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price1869

Well, I'll keep this pretty short. Summers and I did Echo on Friday, and bought 10 permits to do Pine Crack with a big group that Sam was supposed to bring down. Well, Sam's group decided not to come, so Summers and I did Behunin on Saturday.

Echo took us about 4 hours, I think. You must wear full wetsuits this time of year.(really anytime of year in Echo it's a good idea.) That water is cold. The water was not very high. The log soup that we had to swim through on Memorial Day was a lot lower, but there is still enough water that you have to swim . . . often. All of the anchors are good in this canyon. The hike is hard, but not horrible.

Behunin was great. It took us about 6.5 hours. We were careful and didn't ever get our feet wet. I don't know why Shane doesn't really like this canyon. Well, that's not true. I know why he doesn't like it, but I disagree. Whatever. The raps are all huge and fun. The narrow sections, if there really are any aren't all that impressive, but they work. Summers said he liked it almost as much as Mystery. All of the anchors and bolts are good enough for now. They'll probably need some work next year. The anchors for the last rappel are great.

Fun times. Here are the pictures.

Echo:

Entrance hike to Echo. I love this little place.

Cold water.

This one should be a contender for the image bar.

Yup snuck one in again.

Behunin:

Summers on Scout Lookout

Yeah, they're bolts. So what?

Summers

These were probably the worst bolts in the canyon. Pretty loose.

This is the rappel off those bolts in the previous picture.

Last Rap. The sky got washed out in this picture. I'll fix it in PS and repost it.

Summers on the last rappel.

Why do they build so many damned Carins???? I'm so confused. I have no idea which way to go. (We knocked them all over, and then went stealing candy from little kids.)

Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 11846 Location: The Rubbish Bin

price1869 wrote:

Entrance hike to Echo. I love this little place.

That is a pretty sweet entrance. Is it natural?

price1869 wrote:

Yup snuck one in again.

You should grow that goatee out.

Iceaxe · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 7758 Location: Local Bordello

Interesting combo platter.

:hail2thechief: Echo.... the most underrated of the Zion canyons.

:sleeping: Behunin.... the most overrated of the Zion Canyons.

:blbl:

price1869

Sombeech wrote:

That is a pretty sweet entrance. Is it natural?

You should grow that goatee out.

a. No, it was blasted out in the Depression days I suppose. It's just a part of the East Rim trail.

b. My facial hair looks like I do a small amount of chemotherapy on the side. I let it go for about a month at a time, but a beard is way beyond my reach.

Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 11846 Location: The Rubbish Bin

price1869 wrote: b. My facial hair looks like I do a small amount of chemotherapy on the side. I let it go for about a month at a time, but a beard is way beyond my reach.

Don't worry, mine used to be like that too. I had to have peach fuzz on my face for about 3 months, then it finally thickenned up.

Be carefull though, once you grow it in you'll never want to shave it off. It will make your face look fat.

Or it could be the Big Macs I'm eating.

rockgremlin · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 3921 Location: Hotel California

Nice TR. I really want to do Behunin - mainly because I love rappelling, and Behunin has many fairly large raps. That and I know Shane hates it. :haha:

Nice work on knocking over the cairn-garden. :2thumbs:

BTW, I read an article in GQ about 5 years ago stating that the Goatee was officially OUT. That was 5 YEARS AGO PEOPLE!! It was popular in the early 90's, now it's just annoying. Welcome to 2005, shave that ugly thing off!!

The only people who look good with a goatee are Satan and Fu Manchu.

price1869 · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject:

You read GQ, thats so out. Men's Health came in like 5 years ago. jk

yeah, i like the scruffy look for a while. But really, you should be finding me your single girlfriends and asking them what they like.

Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 11846 Location: The Rubbish Bin

rockgremlin wrote: The only people who look good with a goatee are Satan and Fu Manchu.

But a lot of people in Hollywood like Satan, so that's a contradiction.

Superriffic S* · Guest

I haven't ever been a fan of chin pubes. But, maybe my opinion doesn't count because I am married...? Believe me if you are married and anjoy all the "benefits" of being married you'll definately want to shave those chin pubes before your wedding night, unless you marry a prude, in which case... keep um' :eek2: Just food for thought.

James_B_Wads2000

price1869 wrote: Echo...The hike is hard, but not horrible.

I don't get it, the Echo hike is on a partly paved NPS trail? Do you mean the vertical gain makes it hard?

price1869 wrote:

Why do they build so many damned Carins???? I'm so confused. I have no idea which way to go. (We knocked them all over, and then went stealing candy from little kids.)

Where were these carin? What do they mark?

James

James_B_Wads2000 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

Superriffic S* wrote: I haven't ever been a fan of chin pubes. But, maybe my opinion doesn't count because I am married...? Believe me if you are married and enjoy all the "benefits" of being married you'll definitely want to shave those chin pubes before your wedding night, unless you marry a prude, in which case... keep um' :eek2: Just food for thought.

I have read this like four times and I just don't get the sexual innuendo. :ne_nau: Please explain for the slow ones like me.

Seems to have worked the other way around for me... after five years of marriage (with a goatee) my wife hated to kiss me after I started shaving it off this last year.

James

rockgremlin · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I 'spose. I love your signature btw. :haha:

Udink · Guest Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 802 Location: Price, Utah

rockgremlin wrote: I love your signature btw. :haha:
I was gonna say the same thing. Is that a real quote? I like how he calls 'em hippies, but it probably would have been more like drunken sh!t kickers.

James_B_Wads2000 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject:

Udink wrote: rockgremlin wrote: I love your signature btw. :haha:
I was gonna say the same thing. Is that a real quote? I like how he calls 'em hippies, but it probably would have been more like drunken sh!t kickers.

Yeah it is a real quote. See my TR on Range Creek Canyon in the Hiking section for more explaination.

James

Sombeech · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

Superriffic S* wrote: I haven't ever been a fan of chin pubes.

Don't say that around the Ogden boys, we'll kick some hairless arse.

Except in dodgeball. :roll: