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| Mark at the narrow downclimb section in Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
Our original plans were to head down a technical descent of Tatahatso canyon but when we woke up in the morning, the temperature was reading 16 degrees F. This is a bit cold and if something were to happen in the canyon under those conditions at night, it could have been fatal.
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| top of Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
Mark Arnold, Jerry, James Edwards, and I opted to make the best of the weekend and head out to Jackass canyon.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
Since we had Navajo Permits and Jackass canyon is a Navajo Canyon,
we utilized out permits and headed over to jackass canyon.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
This canyon was far easier than the commitments of tatahatso canyon but it was a nice charming little stroll through the canyon to the river.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
this canyon is rated as a 2AII which means that we left our ropes and just had a nice hike down to the river.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
The canyon was really straightforward and had some great walking corridors through over half of the canyon.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
There is a north and south fork to the canyon that both connect back to the parking lot so we came down the south fork and came back up the north fork.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
There is a short narrow corridor that provides some nice views that was accompanied by a fixed line of rope to downlcimb.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
After this section opened back up and there were some boulder hoping challenges to get around which was not all that bad.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
This could be due to the lack of weight in our packs.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
The river could be heard in the distance and about a half hour of boulder hopping turned into some nice wash walking and a faint trail to the river formed.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
We made it to the trail fairly quickly and immediately noticed where the water line was from the recent water release that occurred in the Colorado river.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
Jackass canyon is a pretty heavily traveled canyon, especially for the Navajo fisherman that come down to the river to fish for the weekend.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
After a short break we started our hike out and headed through the north fork of the canyon which was short but pretty nice in comparison to the south fork.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
We made the best of the half day as the sun started to heat up the desert and the ice started to thaw.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
It was also nice to see jackass and view badger canyon on the other side of the river.
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| Jackass canyon, Marble Canyon |
