Bear Canyon

Location Description

49 photos

Mike, Andy and Joel take a breather after finding Bear...
Andy, Monica, Mike and Joel avoiding a pot of frog soup.
Monica takes some delicate steps on a downclimb in Bear Canyon.
The canyon starts to slot up: Joel leads the way with...
The colors in this canyon were quite spectacular: gray...
Monica's having fun on her first day of the trip.
Everyone is having a good day: Andy, impressed with the...
Joel contemplates a jump into the next pool?
Andy, suited up his wet suit about to slip into a dark, icy pool.
Andy snaps a picture of me as I snap a picture of him. ...
Monica swimming in an icy pothole.
Monica pulls herself from a pothole while Mike lends a...
Monica rigs her rappel while Mike stands by to...
Mike rappels while Joel watches and Andy plays with his...
Joel, Andy and Mike at the bottom of the first pothole escape.
Monica on rappel while Mike gives a belay.
Joel, rigging a rappel.
Monica, Mike and Andy look excited to be past the...
Monica and Andy head into the most dramatic section of...
A patch of blue sky visible through the sinuous narrows.
Mike, stopping for a moment to look around.
John, standing in a section of narrows in Bear Canyon.
Monica negotiates around some boulders in Bear Canyon.
Monica, back out in the sunlight again at last!
We discovered a new form of life. There were tiny...
Some really cool scarab looking beetle.
Lunchtime at Clear Creek: Mike and Andy look for rocks to skip.
Joel skipping a rock in West Clear Creek.
Joel studies our map, which was in fact a picture taken...
A cute hanging garden in West Clear Creek.
Another shot of a hanging garden in West Clear Creek.
Joel skips a rock while Mike watches.
Andy and Monica hike upstream through West Clear Creek...
Monica, with her new belay gloves, which turn out to be...
Monica looks off in the distance at some cliffs that...
Monica in a relatively lush meadow (not what I was...
Andy pauses to fix his shoe, Monica looks at something...
Here is a climbing route (up the corner) with a few...
Checking out the exit to tomorrow's canyon: Sundance. ...
Monica crossing West Clear Creek once again. Good thing...
Starting to look like it may rain... (note: today is...
Andy (left), Mike (center) and Joel (right) escaping...
Monica, on the uphill slog from the valley. It was a...
Resting for a minute on a log at the top of the climb...
The impression left by someone's wet shorts.
It turns out that our campsite was only a few dozen...
As mentioned earlier, we decided not to go out on...
Happy Birthday, America. A day early. From Meredith. ...
Meredith attempts to spell her last name (Moseley). ...