Southern Canyoneers: September 2013

Monday, September 16, 2013

Muudy road to Zero Gravity

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Gorgeous drive

Hwy 191
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On our way!

After uneventful flights (Craig, Shawn, Houston, Nils, & Patrick from Jackson and Phil from Blacksburg) the Canyon Krewe met at the Salt Lake City baggage claim. We loaded our 600 lbs of gear and headed for the Fox Rental Car shuttle at around 9:45 PM.

We should have seen IT coming...

After waiting 20 mins for the once-every-10 minute shuttle the driver drove right past us (the only other humans in the entire parking garage) and parked 97 feet ahead of us at the small sign on a column. He opened the door...and sat on his ass and watched us move and load our gear.

I'm still incredulous to what happened next and blinded by rage but it went down something like this:

Me: "Hi we are here for our vehicles. Sorry for the duplicate reservations but we'd like two of the four seven passenger SUVs we rented and confirmed (via phone last week) would be available when we got here."

Car Rental Tool: "Sorry we don't have any. I can give you 2 sedans."

"Dude: look out the window at 12 duffel bags and 6 people..."

It was all down hill from there...

Anyway: we huddled and formulated and scrambled and an hour later were divided into 3 vehicles (2 Tahoes and a sedan) and headed to our hotel in Provo/Orem about 45 miles outside of SLC.

Craig and Phil were on Grub Master Duty and hit Super Walmart. The rest of the guys unloaded went to bed around 12:30. AM. C & P finally got to bed at 1:45 and crashed.

6:30 came fast. We enjoyed the hot-breakfast-included buffet and were on the road by 7:15.

We are on our way to Robbers Roost for 3 nights of back-country, off-the-grid car camping and canyons. We're going to try to hit Zero Gravity on the way and will keep you posted.
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