This Image Gallery captures moments from an outing to the American Desert Southwest in October of 1999. This was one of the few times we travelled to the area in the fall, and we had fabulous weather almost for the whole time.
Over the course of our week and a half, we visited a wide range of place and terrain types. We had some challenging outings, too... from a long day canyoneering in Zion to some lofty 13,000+ backpacking in southwestern Colorado to some technical Jeeping in Canyonlands.
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Leaving Ottawa
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Lunch stop in Vegas
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Info stop
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Our first major stop was Zion National Park, where the first thing we did was introduce a few new people to the famous and exciting Angel's Landing hike!
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Crystal-clear Zion
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Zion Valley, Red Arch Mountain
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Great White Throne
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The Great White Throne
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Peter at Scout Lookout
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2 Peters, one scared, one not
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Next, it was on to something more challenging: a long day down a semi-technical canyoneering route that culminated in a very scenic spot called 'the Subway'. Unfortunately we have no actual pictures of the subway because it was dark by the time we got there! still, a fantastic outing.
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Subway start point
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High Desert hiking
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High Desert Hiking
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Zion High Country
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Descending
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open slickrock
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Slickrock descent
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Left fork North Creek
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Scrambling in left fork
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