Will Bullock and Houston Hardin on ledge

Above upper Emerald Pools. If you look closely between Will's legs
you can see tourists sitting around the pools watching the action.

Remains of WalMart parking lot

Brad Howe heading into Phantom Valley

Craig on rappel into Heaps Canyon

First drop into Heaps

Roy on the edge

Mountain biking in Springdale

Fixing webbing for 5am start tomorrow

Gear pile Will

Waiting on Houston

Hello

Test

Sent from my iPhone

Canyoneers in Vegas

Pre flight meeting at Pappas Burgers

Canyoning with Jack Johnson

Packed

ZION 2009 plans are being formed.

 

Proposed dates( that has been seconded ) of trip are in teh 9/19 (sat) thru 9/27 (Sunday) range. While it's doubtful that we'll have a true 10 day trip...we can work with these days. That's basically a M-F with wkends on either side.

 

Specifics to follow.

 

Let's try to start a Zion '09 thread with proper emails in it,etc to be used for pretty much Zion Planning as opposed to our usual political/financial comments. It sux to try to find a specific email date/comment related to Zion plans when 90% of whats under that thread is fwd'd political rants (I'm a bad offender). I'm sure Chip,.Hubert,  and Phil and others simply delete all that trash....and thus may miss important Zion '09 updates.

 

Bottom line...lets try a clean thread on it. I guess we'll start with inclusion of all the people CC'd above. If anyone CC'd above wants off the list...plz respond. If yall know anyone else that may be interested in the trip...let's add them to the list.

 

I dont know how many folks will get up for Z'09 or how many is reasonable but I figure for starters....obviously those that have been on a prior Zion trip have first dibs. As of now...we have about 4 folks relatively committed to Zion '09, FYI.

 

Exact activities obviously havent been set yet. We'll get input from everyone and do whatever is best for the attendees at large. I don't foresee us doing another full Imlay with Heaps back to back or anything. I think everyone agrees that was too brutal (sorry for that & I dont want to repeat it...but I have no regrets). I figure a couple/few classic "light" - Med canyons and maybe one ball-buster...which may be Heaps which obviously Matt, Shawn, and I have good fresh knowledge of. On some days if we need to split into two parties b/c of size and desired difficulty ...we can do that but it's always preferable to keep the gang together by default.

 

So...I'll open it up.

 

1. Those dates OK? It's low rainfall, and abouit 2 wks later than last yrs trip.

2. How many days for the trip?

3. Any side trips?

4. Where to stay?

5. canyon schedule, desires, needs, wants, confessions?

 

-Houston