And a couple places where we just walk. Lots of nice, long corridors, sometimes dry, sometimes flooded.

Here's a wide swim, Ram holding the camera out of the water.

Ram swims a narrow corridor under a wood jam. There were a couple of these.

Katie climbs high above a wood jam. Lots of these.

Difficulties in Chop-Slot There has been some chatter lately about whether Chop is an R or an X canyon. But Choprock does not fit into these categories, really, kinda sorta. Most CP canyons are easier when they have more water in them. Chop is the opposite. It has several long, narrow corridors of a Mae West shape. When water is low, one strolls through them, and admires the closing of the roof overhead. When water is medium (what we found), one swims through the narrow slot, sometimes removing the helmet in order to get around stuck logs, contemplating the difficulty if the water was a little higher. In a few places, we found it necessary to bob DOWN a couple inches to fit through the slot. When the water is higher, the canyon becomes much more difficult. The slot is too narrow to swim through, so the canyoneer must climb up through the slot, and chimney across the top. The problem being, how to get up above. Not only are the walls flared away at leg level, the walls are slimey, too. Ascent is difficult. Skill and calmness are required. Difficult conditions will usually coincide with the colder water, too. If our ill-prepared canyoneer enters the canyon in high-water conditions, they will rappel in, enjoy the Riparian Section, then get thoroughly chilled in the Happy Section by long sections of swimming. About this time, they are thinking and hoping they are near the end, when they hit the Grim Section. Now hypothermic, climbing over woodjams and up through narrow slots is even more difficult by the loss of muscle strength and control. Don't have this be you.