We met up with Daniel Martin, Kevin Romanak, Justin Thompson, and Lina Bachir for a trip into Zion National Parks, Telephone Canyon.

  We got an early start to Telephone canyon as I made sure to get the permits the day before, I almost forgot how Zion is more like Disney land now and you have to pay 20 dollars for a self guided ride down a canyon like a roller coaster at a theme park.

   I still enjoy Zion but it does get a bit tiring with the massive amount of people the visit there. We get off at the Grotto trailhead and head up Angels Landing and continue to follow the west rim trail all the way up to camp 2 on the top of the plateau.

 It was quite the hike but we had a good crew and were able to keep moving by passing ropes around to one another on the hike up.

We finally made it to the top in around 4 hours form starting at the grotto, so we had lunch and filled up on water from cabin spring.

We continued on down the trail and headed over to the head of Telephone canyon which was a impressive entrance drop of around 170ft to the bottom tier.

I looped around to make sure this was the correct canyon while everyone else set up for the drop. There were two separate rap stations to the RDC and LDC but we went center canyon down and got a good start to getting over the edge and into telephone canyon.

Once we all made it to the bottom, we started to work forward by passing bags of rope and setting up drops as we went along. It was slow going at first but we all started to gel together and towards the end of the canyon, everything was moving pretty good.

There were around 13-14 rappels in this canyon with short sections of walking. 

 The canyon was dry except for some very avoidable sections of pothole water. it took us a bit longer to get through the drops but I would rate this one at a 3AIII. 

 The views were fantastic looking back down canyon and the drops were less than a hundred feet except for the first one, a drop towards the middle, and the last drop might have been 100ft at the most.

  I recommend bringing 200ft of rope and pull cord. rap rings, and at least 50ft of webbing...the webbing at of 6/12/2016 looked fine.

 There is some awkward rappelling around corners and a sideways rap but other than that, everything was straightforward. 

 Telephone Canyon is quite remote in the Zion National Park but I recommend grabbing this canyon at least once and if you are looking for a dry and quiet place for a day, Telephone canyon is a good one to choose.