Zion's Right Fork backpack trip (Sep 2005)

Mike Burkley and I tried this long and difficult backpack trip in September for two days and one night. It requires tricky navigation through thick brush, slickrock, canyons. We descended down a steep ramp to a chockstone where we rappelled not once, but twice. The second rappel was into a pool of ice cold, shaded water. We proceeded down canyon all day and finally arrived at the Grand Alcove, where we camped under a huge overhang of sandstone. The next day we rappelled down Barrier Falls. Just below that was Double Falls (shown below), which I have dayhiked up from the bottom to several different times. It is definitely one of the most challenging backpack trips I have done, but it is also the most diverse and incredibly beautiful.








Mike taking a break near a summit.













Me behind Double Falls.