The Narrows in Zion National Park - Stand Up Paddleboarding and Packrafting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2024
- Stand Up Paddleboarding and packrafting the Narrows in Zion National Park from the top down in the Spring of 2024 at around 250cfs. This was either the first SUP descent of the Narrows , or one of few ever completed. If anyone else has done this it will be cool to know how that went for others. This is a serious trip due to many factors that can sneak up on you and that combined with the commitment factor can create trouble. This trip is not advised on SUP unless an EXPERT downriver rider with class three read and run skills. The group of four kayakers that also ran this behind us, ended up in big trouble. One made it out the same day as planned, but of the other three all lost their boats and became trapped in the Narrows. One of those three swam out the next day, and the other two one of which had a foot entrapment and was rescued by his brother ended up with a broken ankle. Those two were rescued by helicopter the next day. This needs to be respected as a serious wilderness trip and paddlers need to respect the NPS SAR by being prepared for this mission. For those prepared it is such a nice journey and it would be sad if it ever became a closed option due to too many incidents. Myself and my friend had minimal issues, I ran everything standing and in the end took two controlled falls that were easily recovered from. Proper scouting to avoid strainers was key.
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Very cool. Looks majestic. Almost unresl.
Hala Atcha!!
Sick! What an awesome trip
Incredible! Love it.
VAN! Hope your well man sending you good vibes bro
Nice!
Very cool place and information sharing.
Thanks!
Beautiful canyon! Looks like a mix of Vésubie y Daluis, my favorite local rivers
I'm going to check those out 👍
Rad!
Yeahhh so fun for sure.... too bad I missed you guys on the salt looked awesome
@@TheCenterfocus Heck yeah. We had a good one, but your option was far-far bettah! Cheers!
We hiked up with tubes and came down and all the people yelled at us! I would love to do this! Not sure what sections you did I didn't see the swarms of people!
This was run as a proper whitewater trip is a class 3 run with class 5 consequences. One guy broke his ankle and three lost boats in the other group behind us, two pulled out by helicopter. A very real deal wilderness adventure and by no means a tuber run. The permits to do what we are doing here are issued when the Narrows are closed to ALL hiking, thus why your not seeing any people. Once the paddling season is over and levels below 120cfs as what your talking about it opens to hikers... and yes not ok to be running tubes down it or anything else for that matter once thats the case so not surprising on all those for good reason upset over that...this again being a totally different animal it's a special permit and meant to be done by experienced paddlers with wilderness exp and rescue skills
I wonder if there is any trout there
That's an interesting question... actually I wonder if any and what type of fish maybe in there... I'm actually going to check into this it is interesting question for sure