Lost Park was a... UNIQUE day in a canyon. First of all, check out this view on the way to the Roost: They had to do some work on the road... these are the same dunes that overtook the road last year around my birthday; we had to come up with an alternate plan. We had a different group than usual- me, Brian, Amy and Chase. There are two sections of the canyon; the first is supposed to be dry, but the second has a few pools. Amy and I chose this canyon, and we figured we could bail after the first section if we were too cold to swim. However, we encountered water almost immediately. Chase suggested we turn around. I laughed, thinking he was joking, but he was 100% serious. “Who thought it was safe to do a wet canyon in November? This is a terrible idea!” he said. Obviously, we hadn’t planned on there being that much water in the canyon, which is a bad sign for winter canyoneering prospects. I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. Yes, we’d get wet, but we were all wearing technical g
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