Canyoneer Egypt 2 Canyon Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, UT

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This is a technical canyon. If you are unfamiliar with how to build anchors or the gear required for canyoneering do not attempt this route.

Egypt 2 Canyon is one of a half dozen canyons known as "The Egypts". It boasts a 280 foot rappel directly from the parking lot. Alternatively, there is apparently a 70 foot rappel if 280 feet isn't your cup of tea. Honestly, it's not particularly mine, but Matt and Shawn were stoked. Naturally, me being the most scared of heights out of the three of us, I was elected to go first. Yay? We set up two long and equalized anchors off a massive rock feature. The rappel started off vertical, included a short ledge to take a breather, and then a slope down to the canyon floor.

Once the three of us made it down, adrenaline high, we headed through the extremely beautiful, fun, and nontechnical Egypt 2. Though the rappel was quite thrilling, the rest of the canyon was an engaging and enjoyable series of short downclimbs, wash walks, and colorful canyon walls. We had some webbing, but didn't need it. Once the canyon opened up, we continued through the wash until a small side-canyon drained in on our right. The ridge separating this side canyon and Egypt 2 would serve as our escape route. A Class 2 slab led to the slickrock above and up the ridge that paralleled Egypt 2. One Class 2+ obstacle to get onto the rim above required wrapping to the left around a steep slickrock feature.

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Car visible and friends sort of visible center. Shot taken from across the rappel spot

Photo by Shawn of me doing the rappel.

At the bottom of the 280 foot rappel, view looking up.

Egypt 2 immediately becomes really pretty.

Lots of winding narrows with minor obstacles.

One downclimb obstacle.

Exit of Egypt 2 canyon.

Heading up the escape ridge.

Traversing the slickrock parallel to Egypt 2 canyon (right). The escape heads up to the protrusion on the left.

Class 2 slickrock to get back up to the rim.

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