Bolts in Neon as of 9-22-2001

First drop in Neon is off a chockstone. We found slings on two chockstones, and cleaned the one further back. Here's the single good bolt at the second drop, plus a couple blown out holes. Nice to see plenty of slings! We cleaned the slings and left a single Rapide.

 

But... the rappel could also be done off chockstones in the streambed, or off the debris clog slightly downcanyon.

Here's the final drop. The large chockstone is tied off with a sling (backed up with a length of 7mm perlon) leading to a sling, to a sling, to a double sling, to double rappel 'death' rings. The chockstone looked pretty solid.

And here's 3 studs with the hangers removed, right at the launch point of the drop.

 

Here's some debris gathered by a miscellaneous piece of webbing down under the chockstone. The long sling will get hammered in the next flash flood and need replacing. People doing Neon should be prepared to rig a 40' long sling if they are unlucky enough to need it. Alicia was very happy to carry out the 10 lbs of webbing we cleaned from the canyon, as her contribution to the cleanliness of the Escalante-Dominguez.