In a message dated 99-06-04 13:25:54 EDT, you write:
> I have always been fascinated by the Slot Canyons, but many of them are very
> difficult to get into. Is this one that a person can actually HIKE into
or
> does
> it require rappeling, etc.? If a hike, what is the degree of difficulty?
> What
> would be a 'reasonable' amount of photo gear one would want to take in
there?
>
> Thanks,
> Mary
This one is quite easy to get into. I did a bit of research and found the
best one I could easily segue from my office chair to hiking and Buckskin fit
the bill for this as well as beauty. There was one 6 foot dry waterfall to
climb down (and then up on exit) and we had to wade through several pools of
mid-thigh deep water but other than that the bottom of the canyon is sandy or
gravel and quite flat--an easy hike. At about 5 miles from the trailhead
there is the "Cesspools" which is a longer pond of mid-chest water but we
never made it that far. Another one that sounds easy to get into is Willis
Creek Narrows near Kodachrome Park.
A reasonable amount of photo equipment depends on how much you can carry on a
6-8 hour hike, which would obviously include a bit of lunch and 2 quarts of
drinking water (I was still dehydrated from an 11 hour hike the day before).
My C*n*n large backpack held an OM2s, OM4T, 16mm, 18mm, 28mm, 50/3.5 and
100/2.8, polarizer and a TIffen enhancing filter, 10 rolls of Velvia and 5 of
Pan F, and a Slik AF112 tripod. The 28/2.8 followed by the 18/3.5 were the
most used lens. I also took a 24mm Minolta panorama (Freedom Vista) for C41
snaps. BTW the lightweight tripod worked fine because most of the exposures
were 4 to 30 seconds and there was no wind to speak of.
Good luck
Warren
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