Arrived mon night campsite late Monday night. Got stuck in SLC traffic leaving airport. Phil hit walmart for supplies. Quick stop at In n Out burger. 200 mi. drive south to Robbers Roost area. Very remote. 42 miles of rough dirt road on plateaus. Had to leave road several times to bypass washed out rutted sections. Asleep by midnight. Woke at 5am tues. Started hike to Larry 7am. Arrived 1st drop 8am. 2 mi desert hike before sunrise ( 7am).
Very diverse canyon. Started with 70'sh foot classic inglestead headwall drop. Quickly became very tight. 2' wide, slanted passage for long time. Clothes ripper. Very much like caving. Had a short very nasty trash compactor Wade section like imlay. All natural anchors. Some complex rigging decisions. Only 1 of 5 drops bolted. Lots of multi level fluted drops. Used 40' of webbing and a few rap rings. Kneepads a necessity. Up to nipple deep wading. Recent rains. Lots of mud. We took 200' rope, 110' rope, & 50' Hanline. Never used the 110'. Small packs, caving style needed. Phil and Craig packs way to big. Classic last drop into the wide canyon bottom JUST like spry. After bottoming canyon....2.5 mi hike thru dry streambed. 400' vertical walls. Found the exit crack...a high angle goat trail up to near rim. From there high angle slickrock for few hundred vert. feet. Then true rim and 1.75 mi flat hike back to car parked at Alcatraz entr. drop.
Finished canyon, back at car 5:20pm. We elected to skip a late alcatraz. We had a full day and decided to not destroy ourselves 1st day out everyone tired, no sleep lots logistics
Just arrived hanksville. Will motel. And hit arscenic, constrychnine and slideainide tomorrow early.
More later. Good times here!
Houston
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