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Southern Swell

3 canyons.

• 4B

  Cable Canyon

  The Squeeze's smaller sibling in the Southern Swell, where the keeper potholes are the whole point: three rappels to 83 feet and a middle section that turns on whether your team can escape a pothole. A lone cottonwood at the canyon mouth is the landmark the approach and the exit both hang on.

  Unknown flood
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  The Chute of Muddy Creek

  Fifteen miles of walking in the creek itself, Tomsich Butte down to the Hidden Splendor airstrip, with no rappels and roughly half the route in ankle deep water. The narrowest section comes around mile eleven where Chimney Canyon enters from the west.

  Green River, UT Unknown flood
• 4B

  The Squeeze

  One of the best and most difficult canyons in the San Rafael Swell, big brother to Cable: sixteen rappels, the longest 99 feet, and a bolt count kept deliberately low so parties build their own anchors.

  Unknown flood