Rookie Mistake Side Note: Hideout Canyon is one of my most memorable solo trips. I did the canyon in the fall after heavy rains. Wanting to go light, I elected to bring a drysuit instead of my usual heavy wetsuit. All went well during the day, and I congratulated myself after the final rappel on how smoothly the day had gone. Well, not far below the final rappel I encountered a deep pool. As I started across the pool, the buckets of water filling my suit quickly reminded me I had unzipped my drysuit after the last rappel to let some heat out!! I frantically flipped over to the backstroke and managed to get it re-zipped before the suit filled entirely and I sank like a stone. A rookie mistake that I had to chuckle at myself about!