Escalante River Packrafting Adventure - Part 2

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In this Part 2 video, we continue our 11 day adventure on the Escalante River of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah.

As we continue our float down the Escalante River, we find the river cutting a new course through decades of sediment build-up, now exposed as the lake level has dropped 175 feet over the last decade. We drag our boats along miles of shallow and braided river, finally arriving at Lake Powell. We find the old abandoned Black Trail to climb up onto Pollywog Bench (called "Alternate Black Trail" in Steve Allen's book "Canyoneering 3", map 37). Finally, we paddle to Hole-in-the-Rock and scramble back up to our car.

Note that the canyon at 2:16 is mis-labeled in the video. It is The Bobway (p. 218-219 in Steve Allen's book "Canyoneering 3"), not Ichabod Canyon.

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00:00 Day 7: Escalante River RM58 to Stevens Canyon, The Bobway, RM64.5 portage
03:50 Day 8: Escalante River Stevens Canyon to Lake Powell first camp, dragging packrafts
07:02 Day 9: Black Trail to Pollywog Bench and paddle to Lake Powell second camp
09:42 Final Day: Scramble up Hole-in-the-Rock

Trip beta:
- Dates: March 11-18, 2022 (packrafting portion: March 13-18).
- River flow measured far upstream at Escalante: 2.2 cfs dropping to 1.8 cfs.
(https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?si...)

ROUTE GUIDES:
Canyoneering 3, by Steve Allen: https://amzn.to/3rE09Nd
https://www.roadtripryan.com/go/t/uta...
https://www.americansouthwest.net/slo...
https://www.americanwhitewater.org/co...

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