ADAM HAYDOCK

Located in the White mountains, Boundary Peak is Nevada's highest peak inching up to 13,146ft at the summit.   

Heading to the trailhead can be a challenge in itself, especially if you head up form the south side to the trailhead. The road continuously gets worse and becomes rather steep.  I recommend parking at the start of the final approach as there is nowhere to park if you get stuck and the road can be quite challenging if you get into a problem. 

I recommend heading up the north road to the saddle trailhead as the majority of the people hiking to the summit were coming up form the north. 

The hike to the summit is straightforward and no snow was encountered. 

There is a false summit that I found to be a bit steeper than the final approach to the proper summit. 

I highly recommend taking your time to enjoy the views along the way, they are incredible!

Making it to the summit, you are welcomed with excellent views from the top and the nearby sierras. 

The next peak ( Montgomery peak) is a couple hundred feet higher and is just across the border in California.   

these two summits are doable to reach and I think that you will find a lot of value grabbing both summits. 

After whispering falls, we had to strike camp and make it as far up kanab creek and into Scottys hollow before nightfall. 

The Hike out Kanab Creek took a bit longer than I anticipated as we made a few stops here and there.

We also passed by Kanab 1 and 2 canyons which appeared to be interesting tributaries into Kanab Creek

The towering walls were pretty typical of the grand canyon canyons that I have encountered but it was so nice to hike through Kanab Creek without any other people but ourselves.

The elevation started to decrease a bit as we meandered around more bends in Kanab to eventually reach the confluence of Scottys hollow and kanab creek.

We made it to this point at a time in the day where the decision was made to stay at the confluence of scotttys and kanab so we could have places to sleep and flowing water to drink.

5 dice was played and the last of the whiskey disappeared as nightfall came upon us.

Some clouds formed as we noticed the stars fading and coming back into the night as time progressed on.

We got a 0430 AM start so we could get to the rim at a decent hour.

We ended up leaving the campsite at 6 AM and started our way up Scottys hollow.

The water had an interesting amberish tint and it also appeared to get warmer and warmer along the way.

Continuing our hike up, we encountered a few swimmers with climbing that included pack hoisting and climbing around awkward holds.

There were some interesting challenges climbing up and made the progress a bit slow going in sections.

The water got warmer and warmer and I realized that this is a warm spring flowing out of scottys hollow!

Once we climbed over the last water fall the canyon was bone dry and we made it to the north and south fork confluence.

Now we had more climbing over some interesting climbs that we had to negotiate until we got to the supai layer. At this point we had a few workarounds in the supai that brought us to the last pool of water.

This water had all kinds of life forms living in it but we were drinking our water supply away and brought some water up with us so we could have it if we needed it.

Once we got to the esplanade we had our final approach within site and it was a slog to get up the steep slope to the rim.  It kept getting steeper and steeper and as we headed up we had to work around a sketchy trail ( very sketchy) and pick our way up to the top of the rim.

What an incredible trip this was.  We had a shuttle car parked at the rim of scottys hollow. Going from Kanab point to kanab 0 down up and around to whispering falls, down the falls, up to scottys hollow in kanab, up scottys, and up to the rim of the grand canyon made this trip one epic grand canyoneering experience. 

Spring Creek Canyon is a non technical canyon just outside of Zion National Park.

This canyon is non-technical and required just a bit of very short climbing and a couple spots to scramble over boulders.

Other than those obstacles, this is a great half day for people into seeing narrow canyons without a lot of effort.

You first hike for some time on a nice trail that takes you right into the canyon

There are a couple of stream crossings to make but you can
avoid getting your feet wet when doing do.

The canyon had some interesting narrow sections and some nice red walls

The canyon went back a few miles into the kolob section of Zion and it appeared that there was a way up into the park from Spring Creek.

Spring creek makes for a casual half day hike in a canyon and has some spots with some charm worthy of such a day. 

if the nearby kanarra canyon is crowded this is a good alternative place to visit

Ashdown gorge is a beautiful one or two day hike that is located just east of Ceder City in the ceder breaks region. 

There are two options for this hike, you can go from the the bottom up and either make it a long day trip or camp at one of the camp spots.

The second option is to set up a car shuttle and start from the top of the canyon and head down at a casual pace.

This will allow for you to camp at the designated areas and enjoy the canyon a bit more.

Ashdown gorge reminded me of the upper section of the Zion Narrows without all the people coming through the canyon.

The sandstone layers made for some beautiful scenery and the river flowing the snow melt out of the canyon was impressive. 

There were some narrow sections in the canyon the provided some cavernous like scenery that added to the character of the canyon.

A day hike through the canyon happened with some good effort and cool temperatures. 

I recommend wearing study boots and trekking poles to work your way through the canyon as it can get quite slippery. 

this was a great canyon and I am looking forward to checking out some of the other canyons in the area in the near future.

 There are a bunch of canyons that feed into Oak Creek and the region around the forks of West Clear Creek and Oak Creek.

 The temps were mild when we started on this particular "I", The "I's Immaculate, Insomnia, Illusion Canyons, are three fantastic canyons within the north Arizona region. 

 I have only had a chance to visit Immaculate canyon and it was a easy day effort wise with some interesting rappels and a short but nice narrow section at the last third of the canyon.

 We had a fairly "late" start and hit the canyon trail at around 8 am in the morning. We followed an easy hike down to the tail of the canyon and found our first rap.

The first section of the canyon was green with moss and a fairly open in nature.

On one of the raps we set up a redirect to keep people in a better situation than an exposed traverse some felt not so happy about.

We worked our way down the canyon and made it to the bigger drops that took us to the second and final sections within the canyon.

Everything was going well until we stuck a rope on one of the lower drops.

Apparently the rope was stuck above and below the rapper so he had to downclimb a bit and un-stick the rope.

Finally we were able to release the rope from being stuck and we were able to get down into the cavernous lower section of the canyon . 

This was the best part of the canyon and although it was short, we made it down and out in good time.

Next was the hike out of the canyon and we were able to get out of there in good time, very good time actually. The hike out was steep in some sections but in other sections it was pretty straight forward and once we got to the top it was relatively flat and nice.

Although this canyon had its moments and some nice big rappels, i would recommend this canyon as a Sunday route.

The other two I's are canyons that I am looking forward to visiting in the near future but we will see when that happens.

These are at around 7ft of elevation so there is a chance of encountering snow in a lot of these canyons until the beginning of may.

Arizona has some really nice canyons and I am looking forward to visiting more in the near future.