ADAM HAYDOCK

 Immaculate canyon is a nice technical canyon within the Mongolian rim region of north Arizona.

 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.

Ice Cube Canyon "The Maze" is a Las Vegas classic located in the Red Rock National Conservation area. This canyon can take a full day to get through and IS for experienced canyoneers only.

The technical portions of this canyon are rather straightforward, in my opinion, but a bit of effort is required to hike up and over to the tail of the canyon and complete the route within daylight hours.

I found this canyon to be quite enjoyable and straightforward as far as the technical aspects and the hiking were concerned.

I wore a 5mm farmer john wet suit and had a 3mm top that I never used but some others got a bit cooler so I highly recommend taking a fair assumption on your skillset and cold tolerance.

Like all other canyons listed on my blog, this is just for rambling documentation purposes only and is not to be used as beta of any sort.

The only slightly annoying part about this canyon was the intermission between the two narrow sections that takes you into the heat of the desert ( with shade here and there, ill give it that) where the boulder hopping and the tree scratching occurs.

I felt that the lower narrows section was the best part and I understand that there is a sneak route that will get you into the lower narrows section which I think might be a great route to check out.

The last rap was a nice 190ft drop to the bottom of the canyon floor and a great exit out of the canyon.

We encountered a few jumps in the canyon with pools of water deep enough to jump into instead of rappelling down.

There are sections of this canyon that resembled a Zion like feature but I found that this canyon had some good variation and some good raps for an enjoyable day in the park.

Please come prepared for this canyon with the right amount of exposure protection, experience, and stamina.

We ended up lowering one of our team and setting up guided raps for the last two drops to safely.

I highly recommend this canyon for anyone visiting vegas or for a nice weekend out of town visit to these amazing canyons.

there is usually a semi keeper pothole in this canyon but we did not encounter this pothole as the water and snow melt filled up the canyon .

The raps in this canyon are only up to 20ft in length and there were a few down climbs.

This canyon is a pretty popular technical canyon within the park which also has a upper section, middle and lower section to this canyon.

The canyon passes by the popular weeping spring trail

I recommend this canyon as a good "rest day" canyon for a multi-day canyoneering trip in Zion.

please research this canyon through canyons with beta sites like www.ropewiki.com

Buck farm canyon is a popular stop on recreational and all rafting trips down the grand canyon as people can enjoy a beautiful hike far up the canyon with out too much technical difficulty.

There is also a technical canyoneering route that starts from the top down but with the steep approach and very short technical portion, the group enjoyed their way up as they got to see most of the beauty that this canyon had to offer.

There was a really nice muav section with combed rock wall and perennial streams flowing through the canyon .

At the head of the canyon, the walls rise over 1000ft which gives this canyon a massive and grand feel to the hike, yup you are in the grand canyon.

Some of the team headed all the way up to the bottom of the last rap.

I sat in the middle of the canyon, meditating and just taking it all in which was a wonder but short lived recharge.

I was quite impressed with the beauty of this canyon and was excited that we all had time to get to buck farm in time before the wind and rain started.

There is a nice beach to camp at which also allows for easy access to the canyon and just a short raft to eminence break for the hike out of tatahoysa and tatahatso canyons. 

I highly recommend camping here for the night if you are coming through tatahatso or at least make a stop at buck farm to check out the canyon.

Another beautiful place in the grand canyon.