Rock Feature near Lake Canyon

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TDecker says he is not Good at posting pics - so he sent this to me.
This "HoleintheRock" is across from Lake Canyon mouth, just a little ways uplake. He has never seen it before - but with low lake levels there is a lot of new scenery!!!

Does anyone have an official name for it?? It was about 18 - 20 ft above water level and 10-12 ft across - so might still be able to drive under??

TDecker


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Ah yes, that is "Devils Potty Arch." Not the greatest name... There is also a huge tractor tire resting on the bottom beneath that hole. We saw it in 2005 when the lake was at its lowest. It was still too deep and the tire was way too heavy to lift it. Might need a barge with a crane to hoist it up.

Yes, boats do pull up underneath it, and people jump through the hole.

Tiff
 
Tiff Mapel said:
Ah yes, that is "Devils Potty Arch." Not the greatest name... There is also a huge tractor tire resting on the bottom beneath that hole. We saw it in 2005 when the lake was at its lowest. It was still too deep and the tire was way too heavy to lift it. Might need a barge with a crane to hoist it up.

Yes, boats do pull up underneath it, and people jump through the hole.

Tiff
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Thanks Tiff - shoulda known you had named it!!😁(y)
 
Tiff Mapel said:
Ah yes, that is "Devils Potty Arch." Not the greatest name... There is also a huge tractor tire resting on the bottom beneath that hole. We saw it in 2005 when the lake was at its lowest. It was still too deep and the tire was way too heavy to lift it. Might need a barge with a crane to hoist it up.

Yes, boats do pull up underneath it, and people jump through the hole.

Tiff
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Any theories as to how a giant tractor tire ended up there? I'm sure you've seen many strange items in all of your trips. I'd love to hear/see any of the odd stuff you (and any others) remember seeing.
After 8 years without having a boat, we're coming back this year, but I remember in some of our earlier boating years seeing a bunch of wrecked boats on shore (or on the surface) with the low water levels. Are there still many of those left around the lake?
 
I found a old houseboat frame in good hope across from ticaboo way up the hill had to be at full pool it must have burnt up. The controls were still there. Looked like it had been there a long time.
 
Probably someone rolled the tire down just to watch it splash and sink. You should see all the tires we find up the San Juan. But, those tires are all dumped in arroyos on the Rez. Then they eventually end up in the river after floods.

We find a lot of the usual "lake trash" that blows off boats or gets intentionally left behind by careless litterbugs who should know better. Some people even bury their trash, but it doesn't stay buried for long. We find a lot of buried trash bags poking up out of the sand. Then we have to excavate them and dispose of them. Those people apparently don't know that sand MOVES by wind and water.

I think the weirdest thing I ever found was a wooden AMF bowling pin. It was sticking out of the sand near the mouth of Llewellyn Gulch years ago. We do still find plenty of golf balls, but a bowling pin? That was a new one....

We found a burnt out houseboat frame (rental boat from Bullfrog) one year in Fifty Mile Canyon in the Escalante. We cleaned that site for two years when the water was low. We could see the frame under water, but could never reach it. We wrestled the oven off the shore. Found the burnt binder open to the page of "generator maintenance." That wreck told an interesting story.

Can't wait to see what we find this summer!
Tiff :)
 
Tiff Mapel said:
Probably someone rolled the tire down just to watch it splash and sink. You should see all the tires we find up the San Juan. But, those tires are all dumped in arroyos on the Rez. Then they eventually end up in the river after floods.

We find a lot of the usual "lake trash" that blows off boats or gets intentionally left behind by careless litterbugs who should know better. Some people even bury their trash, but it doesn't stay buried for long. We find a lot of buried trash bags poking up out of the sand. Then we have to excavate them and dispose of them. Those people apparently don't know that sand MOVES by wind and water.

I think the weirdest thing I ever found was a wooden AMF bowling pin. It was sticking out of the sand near the mouth of Llewellyn Gulch years ago. We do still find plenty of golf balls, but a bowling pin? That was a new one....

We found a burnt out houseboat frame (rental boat from Bullfrog) one year in Fifty Mile Canyon in the Escalante. We cleaned that site for two years when the water was low. We could see the frame under water, but could never reach it. We wrestled the oven off the shore. Found the burnt binder open to the page of "generator maintenance." That wreck told an interesting story.

Can't wait to see what we find this summer!
Tiff :)
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I think I saw that same houseboat...many years ago...
 
We spent a few hours jumping through that "arch" last fall. Only shows up every few years - and the amount of courage required to jump varies by year also. It's always a new experience! We've always called it "Hole in the Roof" which is the name of a similarly shaped cave just north of Goblin Valley.
 
BartsPlace said:
We spent a few hours jumping through that "arch" last fall. Only shows up every few years - and the amount of courage required to jump varies by year also. It's always a new experience! We've always called it "Hole in the Roof" which is the name of a similarly shaped cave just north of Goblin Valley.
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And another "Hole in the Roof" near the mouth of Main Rock Creek which looks very similar.
 
Slots-R-Us called it potty arch as well, said he didn't know if that was the real name but that is what he had known it as. He had a picture of it in a previous post along with cathedral in the desert. I will get to see it next Friday.
 
There is a sunken boat in a small cut on the main channel just up-lake maybe a mile from the Escalante arm on the left side as you head back up lake toward Bullfrog. It is visible from the main channel. II took a picture of it it still had most of the boat numbers on it. The very back end is in the water maybe a couple feet, the rest of it is on shore. Now would be the time to retrieve it, in a couple weeks it will be back under water.
I will post a picture when I get a minute. I would assume others have seen it but there it sits.
PM
 
One of the stranger things I have seen was an inflated tire on the rim floating on the San Juan in the Great Bend area. There was dirt inside the rim, and flower growing out of it.
 
Bill Sampson said:
One of the stranger things I have seen was an inflated tire on the rim floating on the San Juan in the Great Bend area. There was dirt inside the rim, and flower growing out of it.
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Ah yes, we find lots of those. Some have tamarisks growing out of them! Most tires we find in the San Juan still have the rims on them. The San Juan has the most interesting trash.....

Tiff
 
Tiff Mapel said:
Ah yes, we find lots of those. Some have tamarisks growing out of them! Most tires we find in the San Juan still have the rims on them. The San Juan has the most interesting trash.....

Tiff
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I am sure you have also seen some large lumber floating down the San Juan. I am assuming there are no yard fences on the reservation.
 
The items referenced above may explain the DANGER buoy that is in place
just as you start up towards the Great Bend. I approached it very slowly and found
nothing unusual near it.
Any ideas what it means?
 
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