Re: Canyoneering
Hi Dave, BTW - all of the bolts you list below are on my list except the spike route. Every instance in #5 below requires a rope to go further before...
rich_rudow 2011-05-06 10:39:51 #65606
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
Well, I posted too quickly -- and there is another side to the hike DG mentions. If you did this hike and only used the packraft to cross the river (what a...
DougN 2011-05-06 10:36:04 #65605
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
Dave, (a), (b), and (c) are all inappropriate and unacceptable in my view. The bypass is available and a modest climber can get up and down the crack down...
rich_rudow 2011-05-06 10:31:30 #65604
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
The short answer to this is that river-resources and hiker resources are under distinct management plans, and river use is highly commercialized. I accept...
DougN 2011-05-06 10:26:51 #65603
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
I have climbed the creek right side with and without the log, down - climbed
and rappelled down several times and also admit to leaving a rope in place
once...
Peter Borremans 2011-05-06 10:15:25 #65602
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
     As a boater and a backpacker, I can understand the concern of the boating community that perhaps now they will have to start competing with a...
Marsha Kesselring 2011-05-06 08:39:55 #65601
Re: Backpackers using the Colorado River on inflatable rafts they c
I think you are missing the slippery slope aspect of all this. River trips on the Colorado in GC are tightly controlled with few permits. You can't kayak the...
Bob Marley 2011-05-06 07:43:28 #65600
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