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Frazier said:
There is clearly a rope running down the waterfall... does it reach the bottom? Is it a legit climbing rope or just a bunch of wakeboard ropes tied together? (I'm wondering if you could climb it with ascension gear... but it'd need to be a real rope without a bunch of knots in it.)
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Very small rope and no you don't want to use the rope that's there. I don't think you can reach it either. Don't count on anything there to help you. You would have to be a much better climber than any of us to get up that rock!
 
Annie’s crack has a similar rope to get out of the water and onto the shelf to start the hike. Said rope is the same size and tied around a rock about the size of my torso. My torso is bigger than the average bear, but climbing a rope like that would be a pucker job even for my nephew’s, who weigh a buck-ten.
 
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There are so many of these magic ropes around the lake. I will only use them when I am confident that I will not have a lot of damage if I fall.
 
SkibumUT said:
Read: "I won't touch them." :LOL:
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Pretty much! I went up one last year that went to about 10 feet above a soft sand pile. I could also wedge into the crack pretty well, so I figured if the rope broke I wouldn't break myself too. We saw that one down Annie's about 5 years ago. It was up higher than we could reach from a jet ski at the time, but the water was right at the edge of the crack so it would have been worth a try, but it was September and unseasonably cold so we left it alone. I won't touch one that is above a hard sandstone pan and is up a crack I can't wedge a body part into. No adventure is worth me having to be hauled out of the wilderness by my wife and kids!
 
Didn't the name for Dangling Rope canyon come from the discovery of just such a magic rope? They didn't try it back in the day either, IIRC.
 
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