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Vertigo wrote:It was a cave called Gourdneck.
Ralph E. Powers wrote:Utah has numerous technical vertical caves, requiring some skill with tranversing, crossing rebelays or knots, and doing other various technical rope stuff. Hard to name just one.
One of my favorites would have to be Boomerang which is technically all vertical... starts out with a beautiful 130 free entrance drop, a 12 foot up climb, squeeze through a narrow vertical crack to rig up the next rope, down through a tight vertical crack which bells out immediately to a 70 foot semi-free drop. Then you takes your choice of going through a twisty S turning crawl... backwards while on rope to where it opens to a 30 foot drop OR (my personal favorite) ascend up 80 feet to a ledge and cross over that 15 foot wide boulder choke to get back on rope and rappel diagonally to the next rebelay, traverse a short 5 feet to the next hanger and switch to a 135 foot rappel to the bottom.
The cave has it all I think. Really cool... looking forward to a map of it coming out soon.
junkman wrote:Ralph E. Powers wrote:Utah has numerous technical vertical caves, requiring some skill with tranversing, crossing rebelays or knots, and doing other various technical rope stuff. Hard to name just one.
One of my favorites would have to be Boomerang which is technically all vertical... starts out with a beautiful 130 free entrance drop, a 12 foot up climb, squeeze through a narrow vertical crack to rig up the next rope, down through a tight vertical crack which bells out immediately to a 70 foot semi-free drop. Then you takes your choice of going through a twisty S turning crawl... backwards while on rope to where it opens to a 30 foot drop OR (my personal favorite) ascend up 80 feet to a ledge and cross over that 15 foot wide boulder choke to get back on rope and rappel diagonally to the next rebelay, traverse a short 5 feet to the next hanger and switch to a 135 foot rappel to the bottom.
The cave has it all I think. Really cool... looking forward to a map of it coming out soon.
Damn Ralph, that sounds like a GREAT cave.
Vertigo wrote:Never thought of doing that. I just don't like to think about falling there. It would probably hurt.
Vertigo wrote:Ralph should lead a trip to Boomerang...that sounds pretty cool!
junkman wrote:Vertigo wrote:Ralph should lead a trip to Boomerang...that sounds pretty cool!
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