Wingate Wander

A Beautiful route that combine 2 short Canyons with an astonishing landscape. Depending on your skills you can complete it as 3(A/B)III by using standard anchors and the bypasses described in the beta, or 4(A/B)IV if you use sandtrap/wateranchor and ghosting technics to complete the canyon without taking the bypasses.

Approach for the first canyon It starts by the parking lot at Pleasant Creek close by Capitol Reef Field Station. You will be hiking parallel to Pleasant creek for about 20 min. later you will be turning to the RDC, and you will be starting to scramble up to the drainage of the first canyon for about 1.5-2 hours with and average pace. Note: For more information about the Approach please visit http://www.bluugnome.com

One you are on top of the first canyon (38.17549 -111.17427), find your way down through the boulders to the base of the canyon. You will be bushwhacking before you arrive to the first downclimb section, and later on you will be arriving to the first rappel station (38.17437 -111.17315). This first part can be completed in less that one hour. After the first technical section is completed, you need to start hiking up LDC for about 30 min until you find the deep crack that is the reference point for the anchor of the first rappel for the second canyon. The first rappel of the second canyon is located about 150ft at the right side of the deep crack. Originally the 140ft rappel is done from a set of bushes. However, the bushes looks dead. The new anchor is located about 30ft close to the old anchor. We place a 25ft courtesy rigging from the big tree located at the beginning of the drainage. For that reason the rappel will be increased up to 190ft from the tree (or 165ft from the courtesy rigging while it is full extended to the V shape of the crack). The deadman anchor of the 2nd rappel of the second canyon is gone. The new anchor is a chockstone with a webbing located at the bottom of the downclimb section. The small pothole doesn't have enough water to use the water anchor. We did a couple of sections that the beta gives the option of bypass. They are fun. It is a nice place to use Sandtrap/wateranchor and ghosting technics. The last section that the beta suggest to bypass has nice drops with potholes that have water. It will be adding a couple of hours to the estimate time from the beta. Note: For more details about the descend please visit http://www.bluugnome.com