
Starting from the trailhead along a closed mining road.

The road passes over a wash a few times.

View back after the road heads up into the Swell.

Passing an old drilling mechanism. The route is cross-country from here.

We ascended slickrock and reached this overlook, where we dropped into a fork of North Wash below.

Dropping into the wash.

Descending through the pretty wash.

One of a few obstacles.

A major dryfall that we avoided on the right.

Descending back into the wash after avoiding the dryfall.

Entering North Fork of Iron Wash.

Lots of fun obstacles.



Most of the pools could be avoided initially by using pockets in the wall.



View back at Matt avoiding one of the pools.


A narrower section we could stem through without getting wet.

A short rappel or handline.

View back at the short rappel/handline. There was webbing already placed here for us, but in case the last pothole is in keeper mode you may want to leave a handline if one doesn't exist.

Beautiful turns within the canyon.

Then North Fork of Iron Wash drops into a darker before the final keeper pothole.

At the keeper pothole, currently full.

View back at the keeper.

We continued through the canyon for a time.

The walls were still quite tall.

A short section of narrows (nontechnical) leads out of North Fork of Iron Wash. We turned back shortly after, though you could look for a way out of the drainage and return to the trailhead instead.
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