From Trooling to Posting

[Ron Burgundy]

Great photos! Welcome.

[MacToon]

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The 25' length and 8'-6" width does make it harder in Cathedral (been there). But as i pull my way along the rock wall face, I don't worry as much about this boat if I touch or rub a little. On some trips I may bring along a jet ski for just that type of thing- it makes exploring and getting around so much faster and easier...

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Thanks gents - good to know somebody else has been there and done that, I wasn't too interested in being a "test case"!

Here are a couple of pics from our trip to Powell last year. The first pic is of my and my buddy's boats on a typically beautiful Lake Powell beach. The second one gives you a good idea of the scale of things - if you look down on the waterline toward the left, that's a 22-foot bowrider heading into the cove below the bluff!

[BobG]

That's an excellent idea - I've used them for the real deal - but boy howdy, are they EXPENSIVE! $$$$, and of course you would need to carry many different sizes to be effective.

Interestingly, my friends pack a few 1"ers, and that's all they've needed. I'm going to see if I can buy second-hand friends - they should be available in this area, as we have zillions of rock-climbers.

[RonKMiller]

Here's a great view from 30,000 feet. This is about 90 miles of the total length of 186 miles, and about 25 miles in width. There are 96 distinct canyons and 1900 miles of shoreline with literally thousands of sandy beaches - most can be had without any neighbors...

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Most anchoring is with iron pitons (bars) driven into the sand, or with ropes tied around boulders. Another way to anchor is to dig a hole, drop the anchor in, then fill it in with small slabs/rocks to weigh the anchor down. It tends to burrow deeper the harder the pull on the other end!

[RonKMiller]

That's an excellent idea - I've used them for the real deal - but boy howdy, are they EXPENSIVE! $$$$, and of course you would need to carry many different sizes to be effective.

Interestingly, my friends pack a few 1"ers, and that's all they've needed. I'm going to see if I can buy second-hand friends - they should be available in this area, as we have zillions of rock-climbers.

In my experience cams don't hold well at all in sandstone, only in granite or other hard surfaced rock. A great alternative for sandstone are these Big Bro tube chocks.

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They've been around forever and have limited uses. You insert it in the crack, push a button and the spring loaded internal section pops out to fill the crack. You then spin the locking collar down so it can't collapse. They also don't "walk" and loosen like friends can when tugged on from different angles - like a moored boat would. The smallest of them can fill cracks as small as 1.5".

One of the other cool things about these is they expand and can fill a crack of different sizes. Once again, not inexpensive, but once inserted correctly these bad boys are an anchor that can be trusted.

A lot of climbers never "get" how useful these can be and dump them for pocket change. If you could find a used rack with just a few different sizes that would be 'da bomb. You see them in use in Moab quite a bit, but not in the shadow of Black Hawk.