Echo in the Snow (!) & Aires Butte (Again)

Submitted by Backcountry Explorer

Where: Zion National Park, UT
When: May 2009
Partners: Ram

Ram somehow talked me into an ascent of Middle Echo Canyon in conditions we knew to be icy. Icy enough, we’d heard, that a group had been rescued from there the day before while attempting to descend the slot.Initially lacking ice but with a pleasant, light flow, we soon encountered a large(ish) snow block, then an iceberg or two, then…jeebus!

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Afterward, he and I headed over to Aires Butte for a run up that fun, little mountain via its 4-pitch, 5.5 southeast face route called ‘Led by Sheep’.

Ram in Middle Echo before hell broke loose

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