Dead Englishman Canyon, August 28, 2001

An early morning start - for a change.

 

We'd heard rumors - a great canyon in the heart of Zion, big, bolt free, and unknown. Dead Englishman? How did it get that name? Where was it?

The Kip made a dash through it, and forwarded some beta. "It's good, very good". Sounded like a choice objective for Tuesday - so off we go.

Found the canyon, traipsed down a pretty, open canyon through the woods, then WOW - it really gets at it, dropping about 600' pretty fast.

First rappel is 300' off a tree 40' down on canyon left. Tom starts down a very long rappel.

Scott raps down second.

Looking up the fluted primary watercourse. Could probably rap this with a 100 meter rope in one shot, but it would require a 40' rap off a cairn or something.

 

Rylin completes most of the 300' rappel to the pothole/ledge, preceded by Tom, Dave, Brenda and Kellie. We actually rapped to the ledge below to complete the 300' rappel. Building an anchor on this ledge would require a cairn or a bollard in the debris.

 

 

On the ledge - looks like water ahead - time to change to wetsuits.