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Ticaboo Mesa

11 canyons.

• 4B

  Euphrates Canyon

  Pothole escapes, stemming and a long run of downclimbing, then a sandtrap rappel that lands in a keeper pothole partway down.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 4A X

  Glaucoma Canyon

  The hardest canyon on Ticaboo Mesa and one of the shortest: high stemming, silo crossings, upclimbs and a crux downclimb inside three miles.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 3B R

  Good Day Jim Canyon

  Deep, tight narrows with five short rappels, none over about 66 feet, and keeper potholes to solve between them.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 3B R

  Hard Day Harvey Canyon

  Unrelenting is the word Climb-Utah uses for the narrows, and the descent backs it up: constant downclimbing, squeezing, stemming and chimneying past Mae West sections too tight to pass at floor level.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 3B

  Inferno Canyon

  Part of the Dante system on Ticaboo Mesa: tight squeezes, stemming, downclimbs, and a run of potholes near the end that may or may not be holding water.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 4B

  Montezuma Canyon

  You are in the canyon within a hundred yards of the car, and out the bottom via a rappel of roughly 260 to 270 feet, the longest on Ticaboo Mesa.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 3B

  Paradiso Canyon

  Stemming at widths that do not fight you, a string of minor silo crossings, and one mandatory 80 foot rappel to close out the technical section.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 2A

  Pottymouth Canyon

  Under a mile of Warm Springs side canyon that stays easy until the end, where you either chimney down into cold water of unknown depth and a very narrow slot, or stem across the top about 30 feet above the floor.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 4B X

  Psychological Damage Canyon

  An X rated stemming canyon above Smith Fork, first descended in May 1999 as Bunfodder and renamed after a 2005 party joked about the psychological damage of an unplanned night in it.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 2A

  Smith Fork Canyon

  Long stretches of narrows that never quite pinch to a slot, plus side canyons and good primitive camping, on a route Road Trip Ryan calls one of the most overlooked narrow canyon hikes around.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood
• 4B R

  Tinnitus

  Short enough that most parties pair it with a neighbor, and it finishes with an 80 foot rappel through a dark cave into a maidenhair fern garden above Lake Powell.

  Ticaboo, UT Unknown flood