They're going to want dry suits The water is cold in the summer it will be

Nov 19, 2024
11:02:14am

Cosmodiar All-American

freezing in November. If they only have one car they are going to want to just hike up from the bottom. It's more than seven miles on the road from the end of the trail to the start.

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My Son & Son In Law are hiking the Subway the day after Thanksgiving, feasible?

banksters

10:57am

Well you need permits for starters

NWCoug

11:00am

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banksters

11:01am

It's been a while, but it used to be easy to get permits in the off-season

ryebrye

11:04am

Probably, but there’s a lottery that you have to enter a few months earlier. They give out some same-day permits too,

mvtoro

11:06am

The lottery is year round now? Zion must be overrun

ryebrye

11:30am

If hiking bottom up and back that’s doable, but it will be wet and cold

Nakedbootleg

11:02am

They're going to want dry suits The water is cold in the summer it will be

Cosmodiar

11:02am

If hiking from bottom up it’s ~9 miles round and you don’t have to get very wet if you don’t want to. I go 90% of the

mvtoro

11:03am

Backup plan, Buckskin Gulch. Wire pass trailhead to Whitehouse campground. No

Wife_Apologist

11:05am

Everytime I've done Buckskin the water has been deeper than that, but I haven't

Cosmodiar

11:08am

Yeah, almost always at least to the knees.

the rural juror

11:19am

April both times for me. Must be lucky.

Wife_Apologist

11:25am

I did part of Buckskin in early February, and that part was dry

jdub

11:32am

Sounds like they are planning a bottom up hike if they think they only need one

Cachanilla83

11:14am

It is totally doable, and they will probably love it since nobody else will be

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