Jen has been talking about doing the Subway for about as long as I’ve known her, but for some reason we just never got it done. Getting the permit, renting the dry suits, and scheduling a shuttle makes it a two-day ordeal just to get the logistics dialed, and we were never quite willing to spend a whole weekend doing this thing. But, now that we’re made out of time, it seemed like the perfect time to do it.
When we got dropped off at sunup, there was snow on the ground, which was not a good sign given how much swimming we were about to do. After an hour of overland navigation and some steep down climbing, we made our way into the top of the canyon, through the first of several rappels, and into the water for the first time.
We were very surprised just how much water there was. It’s super late in the season for this thing, and it hasn’t rained in a long time, but there were still at least a half dozen full-on swims. I felt like the dry suits were overkill when we rented them, but I was sure happy to have them once we were in there.
This canyon definitely lived up to the hype. I’m so happy that we finally took the opportunity to experience such a unique landscape.
