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| no partners | | Did this as an overnight. an interesting trip. Somehow ended up with a newbie on this trip. Not just a canyoneering newbie, but a rock hopping newbie, a swimming with pack newbie, and perhaps a backpacking newbie as well. It felt like a guided trip at times with said person really having no clue about almost everything we did. I would think it would be pretty obvious from reading at least a basic description of this trip that this is a pretty burly trip.
Started at the Reynolds TH and decided to walk the loop instead of shuttle. after a couple of hours got to Park canyon and the first rap. Started to realize what we were in for when we realized that someone on the trip had almost no rapelling experience and had never rapped with a pack on. After a very long first rap(time wise) we continued rock hopping down stream, with me and a few other stopping and waiting for a while after getting pretty far ahead. Got to the beautiful arch rap in Park and suited up for the awesome sequence. Rapped 60ft or so into a pool and then rapped another feet to the floor and the junction with Salome. At this point it was 2:45 and the clock was ticking since we planned on camping above the climb in Workman. Did the 1+ mile slog down Salome to the narrows. Waited for what felt like an hour. Our passenger had rolled an ankle and needed help with the pack. So the swims, downclimbs etc became an extra challenge. The narrows were spectacular though with a fun simul-rap and a gorgeous waterfall rap and some loooong swims. I was hoping to do this section earlier in the day with maybe some sun, but alas. It also became clear that this person had no experience swimming with a pack. Luckily he was a good swimmer but he made the long swims look awkward and painful. Finally got to the Workman junction and it was 6:30. Had a discussion on whether to bivy there with some poor campsites or continue on. My friend who did it before thought there might be good campsites 10-15 min up workman before the climb. So we decided to continue. We had to get wet again with one short swim. I went ahead to scout the climb to see if we could get up it before dark since there were supposed to be good campsites above the falls. Once i got to the falls is was already pretty dark so I searched for the climb with my headlamp. We all decided to bivy there since we were all tired and it was hard to eval the climb in the dark. Camping was pretty bad. Very rocky and not flat. I actually managed to sleep fairly well. In the morning scouted the climb and it didn't look too bad. I led it and setup a top rope anchor - had two people who wanted a belay. The others just used the rope as a handline. Got everyone up and kept slogging up Workman creek. Finally hit the trail and Shelley and I took off - we had plans to do another canyon before driving home. Great canyon and fun trip - but I'm still a bit annoyed. Take away - don't assume that someone you think would have good judgement about who to bring on a trip will actually have good judgement. |
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