Canyoneering Robber's Roost: Maybe Mindbender and Chambers

 Scott, David, and Everett went canyoneering in the Robber's Roost area the last few days. They drove down on Thursday night, camping by Robber's Roost Springs. They did a canyon called "Maybe Mindbender" on Friday morning. That canyon was a beautiful canyon but had a challenging exit, long and hot.

They saw and heard some wild burros, the white animals in the center right of the picture below:

Scott took this picture for me since I learned about the General Land Office Survey in my family history classes:

Slot section at the beginning:

The last rappel was into a spring-fed canyon: 

The exit involved climbing and scrambling in a very exposed area in the middle of a very hot day--temps over 100 degrees.

They found a dead cow:

Since the other two canyons they planned had the same exit--which they did not want to do again--they decided to drive somewhere else and do a different canyon on Saturday morning called Chambers. This canyon didn't have rappelling but had a lot of down climbing. And if you have any tendency towards claustrophobia, this was not your canyon. Roadtrip Ryan put a weight limit of 180 lbs. on this canyon and that's probably too high depending on how tall you are.

Friday night they had chili for dinner but didn't have a pot so this was their creative solution for heating up the cans:

And here's the Milky Way:

Saturday morning, they started on the Chamber:

The reason for the weight limit:

At one point, they came to a spot that was completely dark. So they shined a light on the wall and there were spiders crawling everywhere:

At one point, Scott ripped his pants quite badly and they were history:

This is the end with an abrupt drop: