Travel: Utah’s Rock Climbing Country
Scotsman.com, from way across the
water, has this
interesting article describing rock
climbing in Zion
Park and Moab, along with
other national park adventures. The title of this post is also the
title of the article. Below are excerpts.
He (Dougal
Tavener) is a world-class professional who can be found regularly
gracing the pages of international climbing magazines, and favours
Utah’s parks for the challenging and exciting climbs. Places such
as Zion, which offer big-wall climbing up to 1,000 metres, and Moab,
in eastern Utah, are among his favourites.
Tavener speaks in
a voice that is quiet and cool. “I’d heard lots of good things
about climbing in Utah, so I came here to try it for myself. The
crack-climbing – climbing fissures that go all the way up the wall
– is outstanding, but you need to be experienced. Utah is the only
place in the world where you can find this type of climbing,” he
says.
We try our hand at
canyoning, dressed up like seals in wetsuits with climbing gear on
top. It’s fun sliding down rock chutes and ending up in deep-water
pools, and we down-climb narrow, twisted, super-tight slots, abseil
down walls and walk through a labyrinth of 50m-high canyons barely a
metre wide.
The article describes adventures in
these places:
- Zion National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Along Highway 12
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Arches National Park
It is a good article, worth reading.
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