Somebody spent a cold night outdoors

[Weekday Warrior]

no way in hell would I let my kid head down some canyon alone while I headed for the truck on the trail...wtf??

He'd walk his arse back up to the trail and we'd double it out and get the sled in the morn after I had a hot cup of coffee.


Its amazing how often sledders split up and spend an hour or so trying to find one another


that said I LOVE my Rino 530 lolz

 

[Long Gone]

The canyon at the bottom center of the picture looks like the Dry Canyon that I helped drag my friends sleds out of a few years ago. It does have a forked top to it, my friends dropped in the right hand side, we took them out the left hand side. I am quite confident that you have the right picture. It does not look bad from the air, but get down in there and it gets ugly with low snow. Toward the end of the season, it isn't as bad.

 

[revpilot]

The canyon at the bottom center of the picture looks like the Dry Canyon that I helped drag my friends sleds out of a few years ago. It does have a forked top to it, my friends dropped in the right hand side, we took them out the left hand side. I am quite confident that you have the right picture. It does not look bad from the air, but get down in there and it gets ugly with low snow. Toward the end of the season, it isn't as bad.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it isn't exactly inviting. How do so many people end up in it? Doesn't the drainage between butt-crack and windshield run into dry creek or am I one off?

 

[Long Gone]

I think you are one off. The top right hand fork of that canyon is really fun to play in real quick on the way up. I think that riders just get lured down in there and cannot get turned around then think "I will just ride out the bottom". That is not a good thing to do anywhere, just like Pintar canyon up by relay ridge. The further you go down, the more trouble you end up in. I still like the idea of a 10' wide stop sign at the top of those 2 canyons. It would save a lot of trouble for riders and SAR.

 

[revpilot]

I think you are one off. The top right hand fork of that canyon is really fun to play in real quick on the way up. I think that riders just get lured down in there and cannot get turned around then think "I will just ride out the bottom". That is not a good thing to do anywhere, just like Pintar canyon up by relay ridge. The further you go down, the more trouble you end up in. I still like the idea of a 10' wide stop sign at the top of those 2 canyons. It would save a lot of trouble for riders and SAR.

Signage isn't a bad idea. Dry canyon stories go way back, it would be interesting to know how many sleds have been trapped in there. The FS would never put up a sign (too busy )but S&R might.