The Full Hole

I have always wanted to see what was above the middle portion of Keyhole Canyon. Seth and I had a day to work on Keyhole Canyon, so we decided to do the Full Hole. We entered in the traditional entrance where we spent a good portion of the morning working on the slope. It had become so badly eroded from people using it to get into the canyon. We tried to block off as much of the sandy slope as possible so that we could keep whatever soil was still left. After this was done, if we were doing the traditional route, we would have just dropped into the canyon from here. Instead, we hiked back out onto a slickrock bench to the west of Upper Keyhole and then around to where the canyon really opened up. We dropped in here and put on our thick wetsuits.
 It was kind of a funny canyon because all the obstacles were easily passed by just downclimbing, but it was still a canyon you had to commit to. The top of the walls were only 15 feet over our head, so the sun shined in during much of the canyon, but it still would not have been a very good place in a flash flood.
There was a lot of water and a bunch of narrows. The downclimbs were at least interesting and we had to use a rope in one place just for a little handline because a rappel would have been too awkward. A long stretch of narrows brought us to the opening before middle Keyhole. We continued down that canyon, while much more deep, dark, and narrow then the upper stretches, they were all the same obstacles that we had done many times before. I was happy that we solved another one of Zion's many, many mysteries by completing the Full Hole.