On our last trip, we brought ropes and went down the first waterfall forty vertical feet, only to be confronted by a second, sixty-foot-high, overhanging waterfall that emptied into a slot canyon.

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“I heard him hollering down in the hole as soon as I got there,” he said. “I was just glad to see him alive.”