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Day 2

In the morning I got up and walked around taking some pictures of our camp.

	We all had the same bivi sacks.		Views down into the narrows we are about to enter. It took us several hours to get to this point.
	Slick rock floor of the canyon as we approach the narrows.		Pumping water.

The first narrows started with a few pools we had to walk through. Soon we were in long narrow pools and carrying our packs over our heads. Finally we came to a deep pool that went around a corner. Danny explored forward. On return he was wet up to his chest and said it got deeper. Andrew went forward and we could hear him struggle to climb out of the pool. I followed with Andrew's pack. The exit turned out to be a 20 ft chimney climb. It started with an underwater stem, a crimper for the right hand then up to a good ledge for the left. From there it was possible to enter the chimney which was fairly easy.

Once on top we were all chilled and spent the next 15 minutes jumping around in a small patch of the sun to warm ourselves.

	Andrew, changed into wet foot gear.
	Getting into some pools.		Deeper pools.
	Danny looking ahead.		Not so sure about this.
	Me hauling therma rests and packs from Danny.
			Damm I'm cold.
	Danny looks cold too.		Warming ourselves.
	More wet narrows.

We packed our gear in dry bags and plastic bags so they should stay dry if dunked, but also planned to float them on therma rests. I figured that a therma rest should keep 80% of a pack out of the water. That worked as expected, but we found it too fussy to keep the pack on the pad.

	Danny entering a pool		This was was in the sun and relativly warm.
	Therm-a-rest float.		Mode change.
			A lot of the canyon looked like this - slick rock and pools.
	Andrew.		Me at the top of a side canyon narrows.
	Cold wade to get there.		Walking back out side canyon narrows.
	Big chock stone.		Andrew.

In the afternoon we encoutered another swim through pool with a chimney exit. This involved getting up into a pocket, turning around then chimneying out. No pictures because it is too cold to keep packing and unpacking my camera.

			Many streches of sandy floor narrows.
	With some pools.
	A pass through fall.

			Mixed modeling.
	Danny added the rock so we could hop across this pool.		Longer pool
	I figured out we could stem this one.		The start was difficult so we did it with out pack and passed it up.
	But the rest was fairly easy.