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Here is Rich Carlson downclimbing a drop in 5 Mile canyon, Capital Reef National Park. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canyons/

The photo was taken most of the way through a loop descent that involved going well up Cottonwood Canyon, ascending over 1,000 vertical feet, then complex slickrock cross country travel, followed by dropping into 5 Mile Canyon right above the most interesting parts of the canyon The photo was taken October 13th, 2002.

Rich, one of the sports most respected instructors, was the originator of this canyon forum in May of 2000. I personally hold him responsible for creating the environment that has led to my forming so many of my closest friendships. That in turn led to my skill level improving, allowing for so many wonderful adventures in my life. I thank him sincerely. Ram

Here is Jenny West testing her water trap, with Tom Jones and Brian Oliver helping. Note the garden hose to prevent rope grooves. Picture taken in One Trick Pony, Glen Canyon, Utah. May 6th 2011.

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Someone else tossing at the same time, with slack rope, helps reduce the rope drag, so yes. Often support of the feet, with a hand and shoulder, particularly the left foot is often offered the tosser. Add those digging and sifting sand (good) from a pothole that is mostly golf ball sized rocks (bad), providing the 1/4-1/3 potshots. Three to 4 potshots usually necessary. Add later the hand over hand exit to the pot and you have a team effort, which is the hallmark of potholing.

— In Yahoo Canyons Group, Wayne Burns wrote:

> “Like!” > Great job to Spidey & all the rest of you. > So…was the potshot toss assisted by someone else on potshot-rope toss? > Cheers, > Wayne

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From: adkramoo@… > Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 05:59:38 +0000 > Subject: [from Canyons Group] Home Page Photo

> Steve “Spidey” Jackson, in silhouette having tossed a 1/3 full potshot 44 feet, from a 12 foot high stem, over a pothole. October 25th, 2008.

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Steve “Spidey” Jackson, in silhouette having tossed a 1/3 full potshot 44 feet, from a 12 foot high stem, over a pothole. October 25th, 2008.

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Yes its White Canyon the logs were deposited in one event. It is a large drainage that drains much pinion, juniper and ponderosa forests. It occurred I believe on the 8th of October 2003. I was in Natural Bridges that day and saw a sky the color of which I have never seen before. One heck of a flood and one heck of a storm. Some of the folks who were in the Home Page photo where also perhaps the last people thru the canyon before the flood, I think the 7th of October. I went the first time the following January 1st 2004, as seen here http://www.canyoneeringusa.com/rave/0401north/index3.htm

Here is a different story of how it was to pass thru such a place. What was most memorable was the ability to move huge logs weighing over a ton with one finger. This was true a few years after the event. http://www.math.utah.edu/~sfolias/canyontales/ram/?i=hole

It was interesting too that log jams predating the major flood were wiped out during the major flood and that areas that had been swimmers for years were filled with sand to the same height as the water used to be. Over the course of 3+ years the debris was washed down canyon via lesser flood events.

Correction…The present Home Page Photo was 2 years and a week after the flood that caused the jams, not a year and a week. Ram

— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “kuenn_k2” wrote:

There’s some awesomeness in the latest photo on the home page… an impressive pile of faggots. From my untrained eye it appears to have been deposited in a single event, can anyone give details on how/when that might have occurred? I’m assuming this is in White Canyon from the description.

Good fodder for the indifferent flash-flood-adventurer.

> -kuenn >

Here is a picture of the Black Hole log jam from October 2005, a year and a week after it was formed by a massive flood. This is taken just before the Black Hole section proper. This and the other major log jam, in the middle of the Hole proper, lasted another 2 years, being slowly washed away, one flood at a time. Ben Roberts provides scale in the picture. Photo by Eric Godfrey.

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Here is Steve Cole at an abandoned mine, 1,000 vertical feet below Dante’s View, adorning horns. Man those things are heavy. February 20th, 2008 in Death Valley National Park, in California.

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Stephen Ziff in Orderville Canyon, February 1988

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