Climbing challenges
| Glen Canyon is a sandstone wonderland:
sandstone walls, domes, fins, aretes, spires, hoodoos, arches, bridges,
alcoves, overhangs, chimneys… And so, climbing challenges are everywhere,
and the friction is fine. The Anasazi pecked out their “Moki steps.”
Time has worked on them; they are sometimes little more than ephemeral
hand and foot holds. And sometimes you want to go where the Anasazi
didn’t. Glen Canyon had no signs, “DANGER - STEEP CLIFF.” No
ranger decides what is too dangerous for you to do. You, like the
Anasazi, are autonomous, functioning human beings. (Or else! Natural
selection.)
A horse skeleton lies under the narrow ledge leading to the Escalante gauging station. Jim and Margaret rappel into Cathedral in the Desert from above. In the surprise canyon off Lake Canyon, Keturah climbs a difficult pitch, drops a knotted rope, and all get to see the rest of the canyon. Dove canyon’s exploration is successfully pushed further when Keturah climbs up me, and Jim who is on my shoulders, and enters the overhead slot: and down comes the knotted rope. Mystery canyon remains a mystery. Rainbow Bridge is a platform for viewing Bridge Canyon. Gregory Bridge is a platform for Keturah (and probably no one else). |
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