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Blarney Canyon - North Wash
03/28/2020
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34 CommentsZebra and Tunnel Slot - Escalante
2025-05-21Zebra has been on my list for ~15 years. I am almost always down in Escalante backpacking so never...
Chimney Canyon - Hidden Splendor
2025-03-30Finally did this trip. It has been on my list for years. Super beautiful. Unlike a lot of standar...
Lower Maidenwater - Trachyte
2024-07-22I'm no expert, but thinking a rain event up in the Henry's ? I think you made a good decision not t...
Beaver Bay Canyon - Capitol Reef
2024-07-07Loved it. We did it as an after dinner run. And then took my wife two days later. It was my her ...
Fire Canyon - Capitol Reef
2024-07-07Did this canyon mid June 2024. Really great and great approach hike. Beautiful canyon that we foun...
Halls Creek Narrows - Waterpocket Fold
2024-05-07Ryan. Do you recall whether the spring (about 1 mile before the narrows) is elevated or segregated f...
Halls Creek Narrows - Waterpocket Fold
2024-05-06We may give it a try using the shortcut route. It did look like a wonderful short backpack, but fro...
Halls Creek Narrows - Waterpocket Fold
2024-05-06This is concerning. Anyone have any experience with this https://www.nps.gov/care/planyourvisit/tox...
Lower Spring Canyon - Capitol Reef
2024-05-05I am hoping to do in the next week (thinking backpack in from the lower trailhead and camp near the ...
Halls Creek Narrows - Waterpocket Fold
2024-05-05I am wondering if it is possible to get to the shortcut trailhead in an AWD sedan (Toyota RAV) vs. a...
Halls Creek Narrows - Waterpocket Fold
2024-05-04Anyone been in these narrows recently (probably not, I guess!). I am wondering about the water dept...
Pleasant Creek - Capitol Reef
2023-11-26My wife and I have hiked this on two separate visits, both during Thanksgiving week. We did not f...
Sheep Creek - Paria
2023-05-18I am thinking doing a loop down sheep creek and the back up (north) along the Paria river and then ...
Chimney Canyon - Hidden Splendor
2023-05-18Hi. I have been eyeballing this hike for a few years as a shorter, not too strenuous backpack trip...
Lower Death Hollow - Escalante
2022-06-02My family and I (all grownups, more or less) did Lower Death Hollow as part of a loop. Wow. Pretty ...
Boulder Mail Trail - Escalante
2022-05-28I agree re the best direction for hiking BMT. If you hike up the BMT toward boulder you will have a...
Boulder Mail Trail - Escalante
2022-05-28You were correct, Ryan. There were maybe 6 pools from the Arch on Mamie Ck to the creek's intersect...
Boulder Mail Trail - Escalante
2022-05-20Planning on doing this hike next week (and then hanging a left and heading down the Esc to hwy 12. ...
Upper Muley Twist - Burr Trail
2021-11-22Thanks
Upper Muley Twist - Burr Trail
2021-11-22Will we have to do any wading more than say, ankle deep, if we do the route as described by Ryan? G...
Spencer Canyon - Old Sheffield Road
2021-10-10Hi Janice. I did this this past may. Even on the "easy" route there is a 40' downclimb (an upclimb ...
Spencer Canyon - Old Sheffield Road
2021-05-23Completed intermediate option a few days ago. Only one small wade 3' deep and not really cold. The...
Upper Red Breaks - Old Sheffield Road
2021-05-23Red Breaks taught me a lesson, which is that a canyon need not have multiple rappels to be technica...
Trachyte Canyon - Trachyte
2021-05-10Recently did a mini loop in this area by parking in a prominent pull out approx .5 miles N of the N ...
Swett and Woodruff Canyons - Trachyte
2021-05-10Galina, did you encounter cows? There were quite a few in Trachyte last year at this time. Kinda ...
Lower Maidenwater - Trachyte
2021-04-26We hiked most of the way up Lower MW and then back down as part of a backpacking trip recently. The...
Crack Canyon - San Rafael Swell
2021-04-16Did this canyon the evening we drove down for a backpack trip. A nice way to recover from 9 hrs in ...
Petroglyph and Double Arch (Spirit Arch) Canyons - Eastern Reef
2021-04-16Great little hike!!! Per a trailhead sign Justus Clark adopted this complex as his Eagle Scout pro...
Swett and Woodruff Canyons - Trachyte
2020-05-27We did this hike Memorial day weekend, more or less. There was no water in Swett Canyon for the fir...
Swett and Woodruff Canyons - Trachyte
2020-05-27Definitely back packed. We carcamped the first night at an old corral at Woodruff on the west side ...
Salt Wash - Western Swell
2020-05-08Did this hike a few days ago while camped in the wash. We did Sids Mountain the day before. We ju...
Sids Mountain - Western Swell
2020-05-08My wife and I just completed this trip. We camped in N Salt Wash about a mile from the trailhead. ...
Blarney Canyon - North Wash
2020-03-293/28/2020 My son and I just did this canyon -- left fork. You could do as many as 5 raps or as fe...
Trachyte Canyon - Trachyte
2019-03-21We hiked Maidenwater March 2019. Nothing required more than a knee deep wade of a few feet. As far...