Peter,

Helluva start to the New Year! Keep on sending those fabulous adventure pic's.

Tom Flynn

Glad you guys enjoy the photos, thanks

Pap
the rope is looped through a metal chain link or similar at the anchor at the top. Both ends of the rope go through your descender, so once you are on the ground, you just pull one end of the rope and it slides through the link and once the other end clears the link it falls to the ground

Peter

Nice outing Peter, thanks for the pics. So do you ever re-use anchors from a previous climb on a future visit?

Warren
Thanks
Many of these routes are commonly used so there are permanent anchors in place. These can be used after careful inspection. Other places you may have to set up your own anchor and you need to carry sufficient gear to be able to do that. It is critically important on a route with multiple rappels as after the first rappel you have not choice but to continue down canyon and you better have the right stuff to make sure you can continue
You need to be very rigorous as the consequences are very high

Peter

Wow - what an exciting way to start off the New Year
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us and taking the time to post these pics.
Keep them coming!

Still getting out often and here are some photos from recent outings. Some places still have snow while other areas are pretty clear. Ran into some serious mud coming back on Saturday too

Peter

Looks like it was a great excursion with mud. Keep them coming.

Pap

Great Stuff Peter!

Always enjoy your posts/photos!

Tony

Peter,

Just heartbreakingly beautiful country, maybe even more so with the touch of snow. Glad to see that the winter is not slowing you down!

Thanks again for sharing the photos.

Bob

Back in Utah before another trip

A nice hike to see some new arches (not new, but ones we hadn't seen before). At the beginning of the hike we saw this nice deer skull and part of the back bone, no other bones in the area. I know there are cougars around as I have seen tracks but never the animals. This is one of my favorite times with less tourism and the snow on the mountains contrasting with the sandstone fins.

Peter