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First Descent of Not So Hot with Echo Canyon in Zion National Park, UT
First Descent of Not So Hot with Echo Canyon in Zion National Park, UT

It WAS hot out, but a north-running canyon, early start and projected cloud cover combined to make this reasonable. THIS being exploring a branch of Echo Canyon that comes off Cable Mountain. The team for this adventure was Kody Prisbrey from St G, Jonathan Zambella from Springdale, Felicia Bicknell from Phoenix and me.

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Canyoneering, Echo Canyon, Exploration, Trip Report, Zion, Tom Jones, Tom's First Visit, Jonathan ZambellaTom Joneszion, zion canyoneering, canyoneering, first descents canyoneering, first descent, canyoneering first descents, echo, echo canyon, middle echo canyon
Right Fork and Stevenson Canyon, Zion National Park, UT
Right Fork and Stevenson Canyon, Zion National Park, UT

Chris Avery came by for his annual Zion trip, this time with son Tanner in tow. We rounded up Lin Alder of Springdale and two of his friends, Pearl and Blake. We set up a wonderful Right Fork trip, but some of us snuck away to do a Zion first descent - Stevenson Canyon, the canyon that comes in just upstream of the Stevenson Alcove (get it?) from the northwest. We hoped for something good… we got a long rappel to get in, then not much, so…

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Canyoneering, Right Fork, Tom Jones, Tom's First Visit, Trip Report, Zion, ExplorationTom JonesBlake Gordon, Chris Avery, Hammerhead Canyon, Hammerhead entrance, Lin Adler, Stevenson Canyon, Tanner Avery, Tom Wetherell, right fork, right fork of north creek, canyoneering, first descent, canyoneering first descents