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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Mar 9 14:33:54 MDT 2025)
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After a quiet first night down the lake, David and I went out in his powerboat for a little nearby hike, that we never started, because instead we toured around 5 big canyons for nearly 6 hours! With a stop at Dangling Rope Marina for gas and bathrooms, about 10 miles downstream from the houseboat. In each canyon (or fork), we used wooden paddles against the rock walls to carefully guide (fend) the boat up a deep slot until we ran out of water, or more often, it got too narrow to continue. And then back out again until we could turn around.
After the long boat outing, I had time before dark to go explore on foot around the southwest end of Oak Bay, which is a huge place, although at this low lake level, mostly above water, thus lots of hilly, weedy flats.
I went south nearly half a mile, got up close to slickrock cliffs and ravines, and worked my way back west and north, checking out "exits" to higher ground -- just for fun, not that there was anywhere up there I wanted to go. I explored 6 gullies, doing some steep scrambling before hitting technical dead-ends, except maybe for the last two.
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