Buckskin Gulch and Paria Canyon Photo Essay

Buckskin Gulch is one of the top 10 most dangerous hikes in America as sudden rain fall can lead to flash floods. Paria Canyon is stunning. Grab a seat and relive the journey.

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I was recently invited to join Glen Van Peski, Read Miller, and Trinity Ludwig for a three-day hiking trip on one of the ten most dangerous hikes in America. Join us as we travel on a two state adventure through the world's longest slot canyon (Buckskin Gulch), and down breathtaking Paria Canyon.

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Introduction
The Trip
Jeremy McAllister's Gear List
- Packing Total: 14 oz
- Shelter Total: 9 oz
- Sleep System Total: 22.5 oz
- Cooking / Hydration Total: 10.2 oz
- Clothing Packed Total: 17.8 oz
- Other Total: 3.3 oz
- Consumables Total: 232.5 oz
- Worn / Carried Total: 63.6 oz
- Grand Totals

# WORDS: 1150
# PHOTOS: 15

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Aug 27, 2013 at 3:27 pm #1307016

Stephanie Jordan
Spectator

@maia
Locale: Rocky Mountains

Companion forum thread to:

Buckskin Gulch and Paria Canyon Photo Essay

Aug 28, 2013 at 11:33 am #2019518

Monty Montana
BPL Member

@tarasbulba
Locale: Rocky Mountains

Thanks for the tantalizing photos! Hopefully I'll be able to make a trip like that someday…you keep me inspired.

I have an REI Flash 30 and was wondering how you managed to pare it down to 12 oz. Did you cut out the back panel and other major surgery? Just wondering.

Happy trails!

Aug 28, 2013 at 3:00 pm #2019595

Tom Clark
BPL Member

@tomclark
Locale: East Coast

That hike looks like one of those "hikes of a lifetime."
Thanks,
Tom

Aug 29, 2013 at 3:24 pm #2019900

Robert Diehl
Spectator

@robert-diehl

Thanks for the great report! I would imagine you're carefully checking weather reports right up to launch. But then again, that part of the country can look sunny and beautiful at lunchtime, and by early afternoon a thunderstorm hits! Is there a service that alerts you to hi/med/lo flash flood danger, or would you simply abort the hike if you saw cloudy skies? How did you decide your go/no-go?

Aug 30, 2013 at 1:01 pm #2020224

Stuart R
BPL Member

@scunnered
Locale: Scotland

Beautiful, outstanding photos, until…

I came to the photo which had great big foot holes chipped into the rockface.
Am I the only one that thinks such damage to a beautiful natural feature looks awful?

Sep 3, 2013 at 2:33 am #2021238

Richard D.
BPL Member

@legkohod
Locale: Eastern Europe / Caucasus

Often, if it weren't for notches like that, for hanging ropes, rails, and other helpers, places would be entirely inaccessible, or the death toll for visiting them would be much higher. I personally see no difference between notches in rocks left by homo sapiens and burrows dug by rodents or nests left by birds (and surrounded by landscape-marring white guano).

Many of these places we currently treat as wilderness were the stomping grounds of primitive tribes. Nature is not a museum, it's our home.
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