
A short walk leads to the entrance to the narrows.


The first obstacle.


The second obstacle.

Grotto Canyon opens into washes, and narrows into slots many times.



Shawn on an obstacle.






Bypassing an unclimbable dry fall by following a worn side trail.








A pretty technical section. There are hand holds, but it's not easy. This may be the turnaround point for many.



A cool hairpin turn to enter this section of narrows.




Shawn looking up at the most dangerous obstacle, in my opinion. Climbing up the dry fall would have been too difficult, so we did a Class 4 scramble just to the left.

Shawn coming up the technical section.

Shawn looking down the dryfall we just came up. The way we ascended this obstacle is on the left of the dryfall in this photo.

Entering the side canyon on the left.




The last technical dry fall in the slot canyon. Definitely not an easy one to work through.



The water had flowed on the right, creating a three-foot wall on the left, and then made an 'S' shape. Really interesting formation.

The narrows continue to be really interesting, but not as smooth as earlier.


Looking up at the arch before the really big dry fall. The arch is our point to complete the loop.

The arch.

The arch in the bottom right from above.

Go down the gully to get back into the main Grotto Canyon.

Enter the main fork of Grotto Canyon, wide and beautiful.

Me coming down the chute.


Headed up the second side canyon, a pretty obvious fork.


We got to a dry fall and took a Class 3/4 scramble to the right of it to bypass.

Shawn coming up the side of the dryfall.

Another obstacle on the left that we stemmed to get up. It was loose and a little freaky.

Shawn stemming to get up.

The small opening after the stem section. We were blocked here by a massive dryfall.
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