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Sep 28, 2019 — Last year when we attempted The Squeeze, we got rained out just before entering the narrows. Muddy Creek and start of The Squeeze were very full of water, but this year we had barely any water throughout the entire day. Today Muddy Creek was mostly dry, and the potholes within The Squeeze posed little difficulty because we never got encountered water above our waists. Note that this is apparently normally not the case, and the potholes and other obstacles could end up posing significant difficulty.
We headed down Muddy Creek and followed a closed mining road to an old miner cabin. From here we continued on social trails, crossing Muddy Creek a bunch of times through the sheer and imposing cliff walls formed by Muddy Creek. Eventually the cliffs appeared more chossy and broken on the right. This weakness is the ascent route. Locate a ramp that passes a creepy pictograph and switchbacks a couple times up the face using natural ledges. We continued on a wide ledge around the cliffs and headed generally northwest along a sometimes difficult to follow social trail. We stuck to the base of a major cliff face as we continued to wrap around to the south. The landscape opened up and we headed south where we entered a drainage that brought us into The Squeeze.
The Squeeze quickly became a favorite for me, with lots of fun obstacles to escape semi-keeper potholes, only a few of them likely posing a threat when at full keeper mode. There were at least three natural bridges within the canyon. There were three longer rappels, but overall the obstacles could be hand-lined or partner assisted. Almost toward the end, the canyon opens up for a bit, where we thought the fun was over, but it narrows up again for some more obstacles and a final rappel into a lush grotto. The grotto exits into Muddy Creek, which we followed back.
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