![]() ![]() Keyhole Canyon is a very short but beautiful slot canyon inside Zion National Park. So we changed our plans to go through Keyhole Canyon. We’d had permits for Pine Creek Canyon, but decided it was much too long to do on a day with this type of weather. The kind of rain that causes canyons to flash flood. There was rain in the forecast for our first day. But the weather had different plans for us. We were recently in Zion National Park to do several canyons. That’s really not what happened to us on this trip, but it was a good reminder that ALL canyons should be taken seriously. It’s a fine line between confidence and complacency. And as your confidence grows, it’s easy to take ‘easy’ canyons less seriously. Like all skills, you start canyoneering in easy canyons, then do progressively harder and harder canyons, gaining skills and experience along the way. One of the more prevalent dangers is complacency. Jerry Arizona: “Keyhole Canyon – Zion National Park – Flash flood conditions Canyoneering can be dangerous. You can even see some of the last group embrace each other after exiting the canyon in relief that they survived. Keyhole Canyon looks incredibly beautiful, but all of these people should feel very grateful that they’re alive. I’ve seen enough videos of people getting stuck in slot canyons with raging water barreling down on them from a random rainstorm for me to do something like that. I’m not going to pretend like I know a lot about canyoneering, because I don’t, but I can confidently say that I wouldn’t have entered that slot canyon knowing that a rain storm was making its way through the area. It will surely get your heart racing and blood pumping. Just watch this extremely stressful video of canyoneers getting caught in Zion National Park’s Keyhole Canyon during a flash flood.
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