Sunday, June 15, 2008

Canyoneering Back In May




While we where in St. George for Jamie's big 30th birthday bash, I managed to get some time to go canyoneering with friends from dental school, Craig and Brandon, and my brother Curtis. We did a canyon in Zions National Park called Spry canyon. We got a little lost at the beginning, luckly we all were not dentist, my brother has his masters in geographical information systems. So he took the GPS unit from me, turned it right side up, changed the settings and got us in the right canyon (which is important since I have heard of people going in the wrong canyon and not having long enough ropes). None of us had been in this canyon before, but our last trip we had meet a group that highly recommended it. We were not disappointed. We had lots of rappels, freezing cold swims, great views, and narrow slots. It was Brandon's first slot canyon and besides a refresher course on rappelling, it seemed like he had been doing this all his life. Here are a few picture from the trip.