![]() ![]() I’m not exaggerating when I say I couldn’t stay upright in the pool because it was so slippery. This left Tom to pick up Abbs, carry her across the slick pool and then push her up above his head to us which was a remarkable feat. Sarah and I waded through first, sliding and nearly falling in, and were assisted up again by the guys with the rope since the mud made it impossible to grip with our feet. We had used a combination of coercing Abby to scramble while pushing her from bottom and pulling her from the rope attached to the collar to get her up the first drop, but with a wide slippery pool at the bottom of the next lip, it was nearly impossible to pass her from person to person and then push her up above our heads to the next level. At first it seemed that going up the 12 foot dryfall into Peek-a-Boo with the dog was not going to work, and we again questioned the route after we reached the level of the canyon and saw the next required large step up with a large 2 foot deep slippery, mud pool. This was really lucky since everything I had read online directed hikers to go in the opposite direction. Not bringing anything longer than a 6 foot dog rope was a pretty stupid mistake on our part, but we were saved from another mistake when we met the two guys who told us that going up Peek-a-Boo and down Spooky was the way to do it. Our trio remarked on our good luck multiple times during the day since had we had not joined forces or met the smart guys with the rope at that exact moment, we would have been unable to complete the hike. Lucky for us, we met a fantastic woman named Sarah at the trailhead who provided us with the third person needed for dog hand-offs and we arrived at the mouth of Peek-a-Boo Canyon just as two tall guys with a rope and previous experience in these canyons were there. I had expected really tight narrows (10-11 inches wide in Spooky) and some climbing (though not the 12 foot drop we encountered which was also in Spooky) but we were really not prepared overall. Our adventures in Spooky and Peek-a-Boo Slot Canyons – coincidentally timed on Halloween – were ridiculously fun.
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