FAWKING MIND BOGGLING - HitR 2016

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Actually... my dad decided to walk out of the shower tent 100% naked just as the house boat and associated jet skis drove by which triggered a lot of high fives and finger pointing!

The next day, one of the bikinis on the jet ski did a few laps in the cove, and I'm pretty sure she was putting on a show just for your dad :cheers:
 
What about the pics of Steve1 towing Johnny up the waterfall?
 
Before we know it, we are at The Chute. But before you can descend The Chute, you have to drop into the staging bowl. There are a few entrances, I took the less steep/less camber entrance...

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Here's the main attraction, and probably the coolest rock formation on the trail...

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...and a vertical dash-cam view:

 
Double D pass, that's good.
Going up that Death Pinch Rock was looking even bigger, maybe it was the rinsing it had the night prior..

"so this is the plan...Yer gunna BRING IT!"

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Normally, ledges the height of your truck are a big deal, but it's becoming routine at this point :D

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couple more drops and nose endo's.

The Chute was a blast. I wanted to go back and do it a few more times.
But, watching Drew drop in and disappear was totally worrisome. It created a dread in my gut kinda like that time you get called into the principal's office, or having the talk with your girlfriends dad the first time...you know you aren't going to die right then, but dammit if you aren't going to feel like it for the next little while.

Drew keeps a good pace, by that I mean ; it's hurry the hell up or get dropped..but he had a huge smile on his face when we did this one.
It's kinda like the old saying "No friends on a powder day" you gotta drop in and go, or ..well, there is no "or".

You drop down a 300' slide, really, and then at the very bottom of it, you need to traverse a 15' dragons back with a pool on one side, and a 20' drop and roll to the death on the left. And there's a hole in the middle of the line that will swallow a tire, oh, and then you gotta climb right back up again another 100 feet maybe, up a spine, that morphs into a side slope dugway.

Did I mention I skipped coffee this morning?
Don't matter, I was shaking so fast I could've threaded a sewing machine, while it's running.

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As you roll thru the trail, you keep seeing this peak.
It's Navajo Mountain.

It's cell towers supply us with a link to the world and let us know if the Warriors beat the Thunder or not, and it lets some of us Text and Wheel.

It's pretty bitchin.
like, totally, EPIC...

We snack for lunch at a lookoout from the end of the trail.
I half heartedly try to coax Drew into driving off the ledge in order to forge a new trail from the "end" to the beach.
He puts up with it for a minute and then goes...
"Dude, there's a rock the size of a house down there blocking the way"
What looks like a quarter mile is actually 3 miles or so...

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In Paul's pic here, we are officially at the end of the trail, looking at the actual "Hole in the Rock", on the other side of what is now Lake Powell. The hole is the notch in the cliff smack dead center of the picture. That is where the Mormon Overlanders back in the day drove over the edge and over to the trail we are standing on right now.

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