Bogley

oldno7 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 612

sounds wise Bo & Tanya we were in the area yesterday and the norths were still covered in snow, I was wondering about your planned exit.

tanya · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 5721 Location: St. George

Did you explore that western twin (route canal)?

Bo and I checked out two drainages after we attempted Ant Hill. The one directly below it and the one that is on the same side of the road, only it's just before the east side of the little tunnel. It's pretty in there. Similar to Many Pools.

oldno7 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 612

no we didn't do west root,maybe next time.
I was trying to connect many pools to petroglyph and found a good route.
We also did shelf.

tanya · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 5721 Location: St. George

oldno7 wrote: no we didn't do west root,maybe next time.
I was trying to connect many pools to petroglyph and found a good route.
We also did shelf.

Shelf Canyon is pretty.

You went some way other than to scramble over that block of rocks in Petroglyph Canyon?

oldno7 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 612

just below the start of the narrow section of petroglyph is a nose that is good, the lower 50' is a little steep but doable.

accadacca · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 7421 Location: On Your Screen

You guys have way to much fun down there in Zion. Damn we are all snowed in up North. Keeps me going seeing all your trip reports. :cool2:

oldno7 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 612

We did scramble over most of the rocks, the one that stopped us was possibly doable but penalty points meant a plunge. Will save that for warmer and/or drier conditions.

mroy · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 229 Location: North Ogden

Hey guys - sorry to go all quiet there for a few days - I can't login to this site through firefox so I thought I'd try IE, and voila.

It's too bad you didn't make it to the top, but was probably fun anyway.

I looked through all of Tanya's suggestions in her PM, and a few stand out as things I'd like to do this weekend. Too many GOOD options really. I'm pretty torn between doing a multi-day backpack in the desert lowlands, or doing day hikes to several places, and crashing your Sunday hike.

Oh, and if THIS Sunday hike does entail harnesses - even better. Let me know when you guys have something figured out.

Bo_Beck · Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 782 Location: Southern Utah

Some photos from Sunday's hike

Bo_Beck · Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 782 Location: Southern Utah

tanya · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 5721 Location: St. George

mroy wrote: Hey guys - sorry to go all quiet there for a few days - I can't login to this site through firefox so I thought I'd try IE, and voila.

It's too bad you didn't make it to the top, but was probably fun anyway.

I looked through all of Tanya's suggestions in her PM, and a few stand out as things I'd like to do this weekend. Too many GOOD options really. I'm pretty torn between doing a multi-day backpack in the desert lowlands, or doing day hikes to several places, and crashing your Sunday hike.

Oh, and if THIS Sunday hike does entail harnesses - even better. Let me know when you guys have something figured out.

We shall do that.... we usually wait until the weekend is close, to make sure we can both go, and to get a good idea of what the weather will be. Weather usually dictates where we will go. What backpack are you looking at?

fire · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Bryce Canyon

Bo_Beck wrote: [
Abstract more or less?!

Bo, Excellent photo!

mroy · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 229 Location: North Ogden

If I do a backpack, probably Coalpits, and try to tie it in to the Chinle. Is that even possible? I need to break out some maps...and be more decisive. Tanya? You want to plan my 3 days? Lol. Photography is the biggest thing for me in the backcountry for sure - just getting away from everything is second.

Some of your suggestions like Many Pools seem like cool options...weather looks kinda decent half the time.

mroy · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 229 Location: North Ogden

I've also considered doing stuff in one of the roadless wilderness desert areas like Red Cliffs, or some of the other ones at lower elevations. That's what brought my attention to Canaan Mt in the first place, and it looked like the coolest option out of all of them. If it's going to rain pretty good though, I'll want to plan on day stuff the whole time. If it's gonna come down, I'll probably just drive around Zion & get pics of the waterfalls the rain made, cause those are just awesome. I just need to get away right now. I don't care much what I'm doing.

tanya · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 5721 Location: St. George

mroy wrote: If I do a backpack, probably Coalpits, and try to tie it in to the Chinle. Is that even possible? I need to break out some maps...and be more decisive. Tanya? You want to plan my 3 days? Lol. Photography is the biggest thing for me in the backcountry for sure - just getting away from everything is second.

Some of your suggestions like Many Pools seem like cool options...weather looks kinda decent half the time.

Sure. You can wander around Chinle, Coalpits, Scoggins and Huber during the same trip. Coalpits usually has water in it this time of year and is the most scenic of them all. It's not a great area for photography however. If you want great photography in Zion in the winter hang on the east side of the park - where bad weather makes the photos all the better.