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Day Six, from Monument Fold to Tapeats Creek. I was with Rod Nash in "Canyon Dancer." We made 18 miles today via Elves Chasm, Blacktail Creek (lunch), and Fossil (6), Specter (4), Bedrock (8), Duebendorff (7) (much fun), and Slow Dog Noodle rapids. Bedrock was a tricky rapid with many exposed boulders at its entrance. Fossil and Specter have some big waves, but I thought Duebendorff was the rapid of the day. I rowed Slow Dog Noodle, the Dories' nick name for an otherwise nameless rapid at Mile 133, a mile upstream from Tapeats Creek. It was my biggest waves of the trip. We swam at Elves Chasm where many baloney boats were also tied up to give their passengers a look. We heard how a Tour West rig flipped in Crystal Rapid late yesterday afternoon, because it entered the left side of the rapid and then got caught by the big lateral perpendicular to Slate Creek. We hiked the short distance up Blacktail Creek at Mile 120 to see the "Great Unconformity" - Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone on Precambrian granite schist cut by Zoroaster pegmatite dikes. We saw a bighorn sheep at Mile 122 and camped on an alluvial cone at Mile 134, Tapeats Creek. Hamburgers and corn on the cob for dinner. |