May 27, 2018 — Spot the end car here (38.0419649,-110.5182338), and the start of the canyon is here (38.0639055,-110.4867893). We had trouble getting all the way to the trailhead because of the sandy road, but this only gave us about a half mile of additional walking and otherwise even a passenger car would work for this canyon.
Follow the gully to the head of Shenanigans Canyon, where you downclimb on the left to reach the first rappel. The canyon teases you with a short section of very skinny narrows, and if this is too skinny, you can escape when the canyon opens up briefly because it only gets more narrow from here. Another rappel drops into a colorful section of the canyon. After the rappel, there's a 20 foot drop, and some guides mentioned that you could down-climb, but it seemed sketchy, and we were happy to have a 70m rope to make the rappel a two-tier, since there wasn't anywhere to set an anchor in this spot.
The canyon continues to get more narrow and we encountered a million daddy long-leg spiders, and it was overall incredibly cool. Not for larger people or those scared of enclosed spaces. I'm 5'9'', 175lbs, and there were a couple of sections I had to climb up a few feet because I couldn't fit through, so be careful not to get stuck. The narrows end with a rappel through a narrow crack, and the pool at the bottom was avoidable for us.
From the last rappel, continue down canyon past Olympic Arch, and look for a trail leading northwest into a Class 3 gully that takes you to the rim above and back to the second car.
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