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Day 5: Shilelagh canyons and Leprechaun canyon.

The weather was marginal so we headed SE of Hanksville to these canyons which were lower elevation, short, and fun. Marshall and I had explored them just a couple days before. Now we got to descend both forks of Shilelagh canyon and explore Leprechaun much further than Marshall and I did.

I don't have any photos of Leprechaun because it is so narrow and dark. When Leprechaun gets really narrow it is only 18 inches wide and some 100 feet deep. This is tilted at 15 degrees and take both hands to push your self along. Tim got ahead of us and at one point came back with a huge smile on his face.

	Setting up Anchor.		Tyler.
	Tyler.		East fork, first rappel.
	East fork, second rappel.		Tim's photo of me rappeling.
	The rest of the canyon had some stemming.		West fork, setting up first rappel anchor.
	West fork, Tim on second rappel.		Down climb.
	Another down climb.		We then drove to Leprechaun. Leprechaun starts with a small subway. The further you go the narrow it gets until you have to climb out the top. Small subway in Leprechaun canyon.
	Folks in the subway.		Camera exiting the subway.
	Meg exiting the subway.		Marshall exiting.
	Yougeanie exiting.		Peter exiting.
	Joanna exiting.		Amy exiting.
	Evan.		The large subway. This goes around 2 bends, then narrows to 3 ft wide, then narrows to 18 inches wide.
	Amy, Marshall, and Peter.		On our way back out after exploring the narrows.

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