Really Fun weekend with the Rees and Larkin family. The goal was to find a camp spot before midnight but after driving an extra 3.5 hours all over the St. George area we were about to give up. No camping spots! Anywhere and we tried 6 places. But if you drive far enough away from human life you can camp on some random bluff. It was a lovely spot... when we pulled in at 11:59 PM! in the rain!
We were happy to do some climbing at Black Rocks in St. George. It was warm but not too hot. We got in some great practice rappeling to see who wanted to try Yankee Doodle Canyon the next day.
Climbing- Black Rocks- Sunny side, lots of top rope and easy climbs
The weather wasn't looking amazing. As we drove from our campsite towards Yankee Doodle the weather wasn't sunny... it was overcast and cloudy. But we decided to go for it. Dropping in to our first rappel was no problem. Beautiful. We stayed dry the first few drops but then there was no choice. Time to get wet. I didn't those little kids to be freezing but at some point they just had to jump into freezing cold water and swim. We had layers to change into and even stripped down at one point to on dry clothes. There were about 8 wet spots ... which is way more than usual. But a storm a few weekends before had filled up the canyon. We made it out... longer then we had planned. Brit had stayed with my two little girls and 3 other kiddos. They were happy and dry. We were cold and needed food. We made it to Cedar city with a snow blizzard around us. Happy to eat and head home. The high of the day was 68. overcast. Cold day to be in a slot canyon. But an amazing adventure. We didnt' get to most of the fun adventures on our list but theres always next time.
Yankee Doodle Canyon-
Thursday - camp at Red Cliffs
Friday- AM- Climb in Black rocks, practice repelling
PM- Some go do Yankee Doodle, some go play in Red Cliffs area
PM- if time or desire drive to Toquerville Falls to play in water
Saturday- AM- Climbing Green Valley Gap
PM- Yankee Doodle if anyone wants to…
PM- Drive to Kannarville Falls on the way home
PM - Stop in Meadow at hot springs
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