Thanksgiving ramblings

[Kauri]

@Daymoth is the dry-fall you had difficulty with in Slit the one at the very end of the slit going up-canyon? I recall (and given how long it's been since I've been up that canyon I could be completely wrong, sorry!) that you can bypass the entire slit area including that dry-fall on the right side (going up-canyon) by extending the workaround for the initial grotto area. Or maybe not but I do think we found that we were able to bypass the slit somehow on the hike back. Is the rock nettle bush still growing in the middle of that dry-fall? I remember that made it an even bigger challenge to climb.

@jkpaulsen do you have any other pics from the folks who did the hike other than the one you shared? I'm pretty sure that's not the one Daymoth is referring to; that's not the fall at the end of the slit. I *think* the one in the pic you shared might be the initial grotto dry-fall section that's bypassed on the right side going up-canyon, and is before the slit. Digonnet indicates there are more dry-falls up canyon a bit beyond the 50-foot fall but I've never gotten that far in the canyon so I'm not sure of any info about those (@Brice have you or @Beardilocks been up there?)

Also figure it's worth adding: The bypass for the 50-foot fall, at least many years ago when I hiked it, had a slippery section with huge barrel cacti at the bottom almost looking like they were waiting for unlucky hikers to slip and land on their thorns. I nearly did.