Our original plan had been to meet Brandon at Tony Grove on Friday for a potential Main Drain trip on Saturday. When we got to the Tony Grove parking lot it was dark, Brandon was still not back from the cave, it was about 31 degrees, and we found ourselves to be unmotivated. We decided that it would be more fun to camp further up the canyon. We ended up camping at Zanavoo cave. It turns out that I forgot my sleeping bag (first time ever) and ended up sleeping in the car. Sleeping in odd situations is not a problem and I still ended up with a good five hours of sleep.
The next day we did Zanavoo and then headed further up the canyon to look at Canteen Springs. We did look at it but instead of dropping it, we headed back down the road to look at a different sink. We originally thought that this area was Peter's Sink. Upon checking my map later, it is actually labelled North Sink. Anyway, we checked a sink there that we didn't know anything about and it appeared to go. Unfortunately, since we had not expected it to go and we just went over to GPS it, I didn't have any lights.
We then went to Providence Cave. After a bit of wandering around in the forest, we located the entrance and went in. About fifty feet in there is somewhat of a pinch that Rob decided not to try to push through. As a result, I did the rest of the cave alone. After the pinch and a bit of low passage, it opens up into a slot canyon where you have your choice of staying high or staying low. After about 100-200 feet it then empties into large, borehole passage. It turns that if you stay high, you end up fifteen feet in the air looking out into a large volume of space. I then cruised down what appeared to be 1000+ feet of borehole. Maybe it was flashbacks of "The Cave," but it seemed a little spooky to do alone.
When then exited the mountains and made our way to Brigham City. I wouldn't normally report on my dealings at the gas station but on this particular occasion my fuel pump died when I went to start the Jeep. Some people happened along who knew a local mechanic who had the Jeep towed to his shop. About this time, it occurred to Rob that Brandon should be coming out of the canyon around this time. It turns out that he was right and we ended up getting a ride home with Brandon. And what of the Jeep? The first $170 Autozone fuel pump that cost $150 to have installed failed the day after I got the Jeep back home. The shop here in SLC charged $190 to install a factory $380 fuel pump. Kind of a drag.
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 Zanavoo Cave Robert Cranney |  Canteen Springs Cave Robert Cranney | |||