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Day 2....exited Larry later than desired. Maybe 5:20 pm back to car.
Too late to reasonably start Alcatraz.So instead we drove to hanksville and ate and motel'd it.
Next am left 7 am for poison spring area. Arrived at trailhead for slideanide at 7:30 am. talked to some canyon dude at campsite. Left for canyon. Less than 1 mile flat straight line desert hike to drop in from inglestead like wash headwall. Drop looked omnious. looked like 500'. Like maybe we entered the wrong canyon. We took two 200' 9mm rope. We debated and debated. I was most confident we were in right spot man it looked like short rope city. I put on frog. Phil was worried I'd blow myself out effort wise for the day if I had to frog back up ( he was correct). I descended. Optical illusion. 60' drop to ledge then climb downs to floor. All followed. Pulled rope. Tons of gravity slide downs in this canyon. Good stuff. Everyone enjoyed canyon. Up to waist high water. No keepers. Not lots of water but prob. a lot for that canyon. Good scenic narrows. Not uncomfortably tight. Awesome stuff. Used 50' webbing. All natural anchors. No bolts.
Great exit into big canyon drainage. Used short cut buttress climb out to make the rim. Dropped our packs at the nearby Arscenic headwall on the desert hike .7 mi. to car. Ate lunch. Then headed back out into desert to arscenic headwall.
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