Sunday, January 11, 2015

In Which We Go CANYONEERING! (Again!)

So, we've finally gotten to go canyoneering again. It's been a while, actually. We've been hiking and out of town, but not actually canyoneering. This canyon was called Minnow, and it was actually the third time we've tried it. The first time I made a mistake on what road we were supposed to walk on (there were two) and we ended up doing something else after we took about a two mile circle right back to where we had parked. The second time we drove out there and hiked to the right place, and we decided it was probably too icy (not usually a problem here), and after actually doing it, I think we were right. There were enough places that would have been really dicey if there had been snow on them. At any rate, I really enjoyed this canyon. There was a lot of fun downclimbing and some really cool cave-type stuff that was fun to go through. We went with our friends Dustin and Sarah. Here are some pictures:

View from the head of the canyon. The Superstition Mountains are awesome.

Nancy heading down the canyon. At this point I think we were mostly past all of the thorn bushes.


Sarah on an unnecessary downclimb (I walked around)

The first cave is in this picture



Nancy going into the first cave. It was the biggest one.

Everyone from inside of the cave.


This chamber was cool. It was better in real life.

Continuing down canyon







The end of this canyon had some awesome views.

Here's an even more awesome view!


Climbing down to the rappel.

Me at the top of the single rappel.

Nancy rappelling

Dustin rappelling. This was after he finally got the pull cord out of that stupid bush he's
next to.

Fish Creek!

The Fish Creek bridge.
So, then Dustin hitch hiked back to the car and we drove back to Phoenix. The people that picked him up actually made someone get out of the car and ride on the bumper to give Dustin a ride. That's what's cool about the people around here. They're really nice. I really liked this canyon and would happily do it again, and the great thing is that it's only about an hour and a half out of town. The only downside was the thorns, but that's the southern Arizona desert for you. So, another successful canyon descended, and for those keeping track at home, this was my 61st canyon and my 75th descent of a canyon, so, that's pretty cool. I'll have to make sure that my 100th descent is something special. At any rate, that's about all I've got to say about this. This is Captain Danger out.

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