
Along the Pine Creek Trail.

Entering Pine Creek Canyon.

Rock-hopping within Pine Creek Canyon.

Gorgeous flowing water.

Keep left at this major canyon junction.

Ascending Pine Creek Canyon.

Rocky drainage with lots of boulder-hopping.

Gorgeous Red Rock Canyon narrows.

Another major junction within Pine Creek, keeping left. This junction marks the start of Terrace Canyon.

More progress up the canyon. Stick to the drainage to avoid bushwhacking. Head left up a side-drainage to reach Gunsight Canyon.

The mouth of Gunsight Canyon.

Excellent flowing water.

Ascending Gunsight Canyon.

View back at the mouth.

Really gorgeous features within Gunsight Canyon.

Another shot back at progress up the canyon.

Higher up where the "terraces" become more defined.




View back down past most of the terraces.

Continuing the ascent up Gunsight Canyon.

Entering the narrower section higher up.

The drainage funneled us into the watercourse.

A wonderful chasm where the water flows through.

Class 2/3 move.

View back down at the crux move within Gunsight Canyon.

Past the crux, keep south, leaving the drainage.

Higher up above Gunsight Canyon, view back down. From here we followed the slabs out of the canyon.

Ascending Class 2 terrain.

View back down higher up.

Leading up and around this feature. There's a tough chimney move up that crack, but keep left of it for a tamer Class 2 ascent.

View back as we ascend the slope out of Gunsight Canyon.

Keep right of the brush here.

View back down as we near the top of the slope, Gunsight Canyon seen below on the left.

Gunsight Notch on the right, the peak seen left. Class 2/3 up to the summit.

Gunsight Notch Peak, view back. Rainbow Wall on the left, Gunsight Notch right of center. Evan seen coming up to the summit.

Summit of Gunsight Notch Peak, view toward Juniper Peak.

Down to the notch. Class 3 down the narrows.

View back up the Class 3 chimney.

More descending from Gunsight Notch.

A shot up at the descent scramble.



One of two crawl-through spaces.

The Class 3+ crux. There's always been a rope here on my visits, but it might push into Class 4 terrain without a rope. You may want to bring your own rope in case this sounds too tough.

View back up at the Class 3+/4 section, but a rope facilitated the descent.


The gully widens quite a bit. If you're bushwhacking, find a better way.

Friends seen coming down right of center. On the left is just a cool water trickle.

More boulder obstacles as we descent Juniper Canyon.

Within Juniper Canyon.

View back up toward Gunsight Notch, center.

Shortly before locating a social trail out of Juniper Canyon, a view back toward Gunsight Notch, center.

Some photos from 2015, my first visit to Gunsight Canyon. I'm just keeping these here for my own memories :)

2015 photo.

2015 photo.

2015 photo.
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