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Majid_S

Mountain climber
Bay Area
Jan 16, 2008 - 12:52pm PT
Wearing 32 A or B ?

Nice photos
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 16, 2008 - 05:10pm PT
While we're waiting for more shots from actual river runners,
here's a couple shots from passing pedestrians (Rowers, feel free to play "Name the spot!")





dipper

climber
Jan 16, 2008 - 05:24pm PT
Pic 1 is the confluence of the mainstem and the Little CR
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 16, 2008 - 06:06pm PT
You got it, dipper, but that was the easiest one!
dipper

climber
Jan 16, 2008 - 06:20pm PT
I have only been on the LCR, so the others are best described by someone else.
the kid

Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
Jan 16, 2008 - 06:34pm PT
Duece,
Those are some great pictures. Looks like good times...
ks
tenesmus

Trad climber
slc
Jan 16, 2008 - 08:59pm PT
1 LCR
2 Across from Deer Creek, looking upstream
3 Tanners
4 Above Blacktail or somewhere in Conquistador Isle
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 16, 2008 - 09:28pm PT
Tenesmus, you got two, but only 'cuz you made it too hard--you've seen a whole lot of the canyon. All four of those pictures are from one trip last October, down the Tanner Trail (which was shut down by a rock slide a few weeks after we came out), then upriver on the Beamer to LCR and back. The shot with the yellow boats is just upstream from Lava Creek, and the fourth shot is about a mile upstream from there. At that point, the Beamer has climbed atop the Tapeats and stays up there all the way to the Little Colorado. It's a great hike, and in a few places the trail hangs you right out over the water, from where even my rag arm could put a rock into the middle of the channel.
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 16, 2008 - 10:05pm PT
The credit is all yours, Jody. Thanks!

Hey, Deuce (and the rest of you who've run the thing), I've been meaning to ask you about how river parties treat backpackers. In all the years I've been hiking down there, every single river party that's ever come by has always been really cool about leaving our beach/campsite to us, no matter how big the beach/site or how perfect it would be for their river party, no matter how late in the day it was. Is there some kind of an unwritten rule, code of honor, or can every damn one of you guys be that cool? We've had that entire big beach below Deubendorf left to us, as well as the more secluded big sandbar camp just above Deubendorf, not to mention lots of other places that could easily accomodate dozens of people and boats. Once, at Deubendorf, a guy on his party's lead boat was just about to toss rope onto the beach and land when he spotted me walking out of the tammies with a trout rod. He just grinned, said "Damn, you got the best campsite around here, enjoy!" Then he tossed me a beer, let his party know somebody beat them to the spot, and headed on downriver.

All I can say is Thanks! Understanding that we're down there for the same reasons as you, and leaving us to enjoy it in solitude, is--I guess--common courtesy on the one hand, but pretty damn cool on the other, maybe even beyond the call of duty.

Or is it just our personal hygiene?
dipper

climber
Jan 16, 2008 - 10:25pm PT
I was on the LCR last April counting humpback chubs.

2 of us hiked down to the confluence and there was a large trip of kayakers that had stopped. All from the UK. They had a boat full of beer and were Knott drinking it. So we asked and they threw us 2 cold ones.

Very nice indeed.
tenesmus

Trad climber
slc
Jan 16, 2008 - 10:26pm PT
Yeah, that's called 'The Pinch' and it kinda depends on the size of beach vs the size of your party. Just think how it would be if there was an enormous beach taken by two backpackers. How much beach do they need to have a killer campsite? A boating party wouldn't dare push them off but it would still suck. Unless they were Hualapai, in which case they'd come onto your camp,take your food and throw your shoes into the river.

You guys are making me want to scan a bunch of old crappy photos revealing the gumby I've always been.
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 16, 2008 - 10:42pm PT
I hear you, and wherever possible (which is most places) it's easy to find a smaller, better (for just two or three of us) site, and leave the more obvious spots for bigger parties, but there's a few places (South Bass and Boucher come to mind) where I'd have been pissed if a raft party crashed the spot. But they never have...you guys are cool.
tenesmus

Trad climber
slc
Jan 16, 2008 - 11:56pm PT
Getting pinched at Bass always sucked because we were always anticipating Shinamu.

One time a friend of mine was brushing his teeth with river water... and he felt this bump on the back of the boat... He ignored it the first couple of times, kept brushing, dipped his cup, rinsed, drank. Bump again.

When he finally turned to look on the other side of the boat he found a dead man floating in the water. Back-Edy Bob. He'd gone swimming up by Badger and went missing about three weeks earlier. What mile is that anyway? 80 something?

They had to drag his naked body out of the river, sacrifice one of those enormous J-rig tarps to wrap it in and put it up on the beach at Shinamu for the Park Service to retrieve. Not cool.
Prod

Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
Jan 17, 2008 - 10:32am PT
Hey Deuce,

Great pics, thanks for the memories. I ought to dig out my boxes of pics and start scanning them. I did 6 seasons from 89-95 comercially and a few privates since. Last was in 94, here is a youtube link to my hermitt run at 18k in an open boat. I didn't fair so well....

http://www.youtube.com/user/ampgkenny

Hermit at 18K has got to be one of the finest rides there is. I have seen no better that is for sure.

Prod.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 19, 2008 - 01:04am PT
Pat and John came through Tucson on their way to this adventure. A little desert obscura for ya Deucie since you love this stuff too. From Mountain 56 July/August 1977. Wonder if this has seen any traffic?





Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 22, 2008 - 10:45am PT
Deuce bump!
deuce4

Big Wall climber
the Southwest
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2008 - 12:05pm PT
Some great posts on this thread. Thanks fellow river rats!

Steve-
I guess I kinda blew my wad with my best pics on that first post. I was never much for bringing a camera along on adventures...

How 'bout some watercolors?













tenesmus

Trad climber
slc
Jan 22, 2008 - 12:19pm PT
Love that muddy nanco one. What is it about Carbon anyway? I always loved camping there and that little hike is fun.

One of my neighbors came by last night and was sharing stories of his trip this November. Said they had 6 layover camps in 25 days. Idyllic, warm weather. Camped at Lava, hiked the throne smashed up his finger and tweaked his shoulder and back in the scree on the way down. Full moon kept him awake all night. Cooked breakfast all hungover.

Then he had to warm up on Lava in his kayak. He got spun 180 degrees in the wave before the V-wave and ran backwards till the Bertha wave which ate his lunch. That's a hard morning.

damn I need a vacation. Thanks again for the pics.
clay
Festus

Social climber
Enron by the Sea
Jan 22, 2008 - 12:57pm PT
Another vote for the Nankoweap picture! Somethin' about that one. Thanks for sharin' 'em!

And for those without river trip funds, that's one of the great backpack trips in G.C., especially from the northeast side trail that brings you in up and over the gap at Saddle Mountain for your first sudden, unexpected and sweeping view of the canyon--an incredible campsite. Then from there all the way down to the river, the last couple miles along a clear and flowing creek to the huge delta at Nankoweap, on a trail built by Powell himself.
the Fet

Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
Jan 22, 2008 - 04:14pm PT
Very nice.
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