I hiked the bottom section (about three miles in and three miles out) of the Narrows in September and carried my camera equipment in a Pelican case. I also used this case for a five day Grand Canyon float trip earlier in the month. Although a bit heavy and bulky, I knew my equipment was going to stay secure and dry. In the Zion hike, I kept the camera in the case on the hike in except when taking a photo. After hiking in, I realized that I felt pretty secure about my footing (I used and highly recommend TWO hiking poles when walking in the water), so on the hike out I took the camera out of the Pelican case and put it around my neck. Although a bit risky, I never fell or got the camera wet and got a lot of great shots because the camera was so handy. It is a spectacular place to photograph. Because of the way the light reflects off the walls of the slot canyon, the best lighting (at least in September) was between 11:00 AM and 2:00PM, not during the early morning/late evening hours. I had heard this from a local professional photographer before I did the hike and it was true.

It may have come off the same assembly line. With subcontractors doing so much work branded by someone else who knows.

My late step father was an engineer for a commercial water purifier company. He once went to trouble shoot problems a major gin distiller was having with one purifier. (It turned out the solution was remove the control knobs and lock them up where that line's foreman couldn't get them.) While working on the machine he saw over a dozen brand names on bottles go down the line next to him to the filling step. He made a list and after that bought whichever brand was on sale.