Permits put pressure on hikers to go on backpacking treks through Southern Utah's slot canyons during dangerous conditions.
“Rarely more than 10 feet wide, the eerie corridor is 400 feet deep at its junction with the Paria River,” the article said. “Most chilling: The entire length of sandstone wall is virtually insurmountable – except for a single escape hatch at the Middle Route, about 8 miles in from Wire Pass.”
“Just because of the water conditions, because of what was going on, they couldn’t go really any further,” he said. “They were worn out and the water had them trapped, essentially.” Finding the body of one of the missing men was more unsettling. It was unavoidable, he said, laying in a 25-foot wide area of the canyon near where he made camp at a site called Big Springs in Arizona. Gouse reported it after he emerged from his hike Wednesday and searchers located the body shortly thereafter, Alldredge said.
Susan Dodson called this one of the wettest of the 30 years that she and her husband have operated the Kanab-based. Like Welsh, they also have been deterring backpackers from taking the Buckskin Gulch route and refusing to shuttle them there. That doesn’t always go over well, she said. The biggest issue is that hikers have to secure their permits three months in advance viaand must set out on the day indicated on their permit.
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