Check out the picture of the megamid tarp!! I don’t tent camp often, but conditions turned our tarp into a tent. We needed the hammer claw to take the thing down days later. I must say that canyoneering through a snowy canyons remains the prettiest canyoneering I have ever done. Sublime. The plastered walls are a series of art work by nature. It is also treacherous. Very dangerous, you go first!! So I found myself pleased to get a few days of it, but equally pleased that it wasn’t like last year, where it was everyday like that. You can only go to the well so often, I think. The easiest canyons turned into something requiring great thought and care and showing at their best. Pictures?
http://picasaweb.google.com/aramv14/SnowyFreezeFestDec29302010#
Malia
I didn’t do a canyon on either the 29th or the 30th and opted for hiking around instead. Looking at your pictures made me realize that the snow really settled a lot between the 30th and the 31st when I finally got motivated to do a canyon again–thanks in large part to Tom Talboys doing a great job rallying the troops for a Hog. My impression is that we didn’t have anywhere near the snowy experience in Hog 1 on the 31st as you found in the Leps on teh 30th. There was, however, quite a bit more water and ice in the canyon than when I did it on the 28th. I found that doing the canyon back to back in such different conditions was pretty exciting. The difference in stemming and maneuvering required with all the snow made it like a completely different canyon.
I already posted this link, but here it is again for Hog 1 on the 31st: http://picasaweb.google.com/maliamcilvenna/FF9Dec31Hog1# Dan also included some shots from Hog 1 in his video, and I think there are other Hog 1 pictures floating around from the Dec 31st descent.
On another Hogs note, Carol forwarded me this interesting vocabulary word from phone’s daily dictionary app:
Hog·ma·nay [hog-muh-ney] -noun Scot. 1. the eve of New Year’s Day. 2. (lowercase) a gift given on Hogmanay. Origin: 1670–80; orig. uncert.
I guess a Hog was quite an appropriate choice for a descent on December 31! I love those canyons and will gladly make tradition of it!
— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “RAM” wrote:
Check out the picture of the megamid tarp!! I don’t tent camp often, but conditions turned our tarp into a tent. We needed the hammer claw to take the thing down days later. I must say that canyoneering through a snowy canyons remains the prettiest canyoneering I have ever done. Sublime. The plastered walls are a series of art work by nature. It is also treacherous. Very dangerous, you go first!! So I found myself pleased to get a few days of it, but equally pleased that it wasn’t like last year, where it was everyday like that. You can only go to the well so often, I think. The easiest canyons turned into something requiring great thought and care and showing at their best. > Pictures?
http://picasaweb.google.com/aramv14/SnowyFreezeFestDec29302010#