Here is a breif trip report as promised. My dad works for the government so it’s rather plain and to the point, but if anyone is interested, here it is:
Russell Patterson
I hiked the canyon [Misery Canyon] about 35 years ago with some people from either Cedar City or St. George. We started at the east entrance to the Park and came down a narrow canyon that had a warm spring in it that you had to swim across. The Spring was just before the river. We did rescued a deer that had fallen in a pot hole. We lassoed it with a rope and hauled it out. We hiked up the East Fork of the Virgin to a canyon on the south side of the Virgin. We hiked to the end of the canyon and our sleeping bags were tossed off a cliff by someone who drove to the rim of the canyon in a four wheel drive vehicle. The next day our sleeping bags were hauled up by road and inner tubes were dropped down to us. We floated down the river on inner tubes but portaged around the 50′ waterfall. We floated until it got dark and then hiked by flashlight until we reached a dirt road and the four wheel drive vehicle that had been driven there.
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scott patterson
One thing that should be mentioned, but was not is that they didn’t use bolts or slings or even rock climbing harnesses. Everything was done using rope tricks and lassos. I guess the “clean canyoneering” movement started sooner than we thought, hee hee.
scott patterson kesscokim@yahoo.com> wrote: Here is a breif trip report as promised. My dad works for the government so it’s rather plain and to the point, but if anyone is interested, here it is:
Russell Patterson
I hiked the canyon [Misery Canyon] about 35 years ago with some people from either Cedar City or St. George. We started at the east entrance to the Park and came down a narrow canyon that had a warm spring in it that you had to swim across. The Spring was just before the river. We did rescued a deer that had fallen in a pot hole. We lassoed it with a rope and hauled it out. We hiked up the East Fork of the Virgin to a canyon on the south side of the Virgin. We hiked to the end of the canyon and our sleeping bags were tossed off a cliff by someone who drove to the rim of the canyon in a four wheel drive vehicle. The next day our sleeping bags were hauled up by road and inner tubes were dropped down to us. We floated down the river on inner tubes but portaged around the 50′ waterfall. We floated until it got dark and then hiked by flashlight until we reached a dirt road and the four wheel drive vehicle that had been driven there.
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Thanks Scott!
I want to go in an inner tube!
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Here is a breif trip report as promised. My dad works for the government so it’s rather plain and to the point, but if anyone is interested, here it is:
Russell Patterson
I hiked the canyon [Misery Canyon] about 35 years ago with some people from either Cedar City or St. George. We started at the east entrance to the Park and came down a narrow canyon that had a warm spring in it that you had to swim across. The Spring was just before the river. We did rescued a deer that had fallen in a pot hole. We lassoed it with a rope and hauled it out. We hiked up the East Fork of the Virgin to a canyon on the south side of the Virgin. We hiked to the end of the canyon and our sleeping bags were tossed off a cliff by someone who drove to the rim of the canyon in a four wheel drive vehicle. The next day our sleeping bags were hauled up by road and inner tubes were dropped down to us. We floated down the river on inner tubes but portaged around the 50′ waterfall. We floated until it got dark and then hiked by flashlight until we reached a dirt road and the four wheel drive vehicle that had been driven there.