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Hike 1. Escalante River. Day1
Club: my scouting Date: 05/15/2005 Parking: good. Can be crowded. Topo! Utah Trace: 1EscalanteRiverDay1_GPS20050515.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 1EscalanteRiverDay1_GPS20050515_tpo.gpx Description File: 1EscalanteRiverDay1_GPS20050515.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 1EscalanteRiverDay1_GPS20050515.gtm Photo Album: DrivingToEscalante_20050514; EscalanteRiverDay1_GPS20050515
Hike 2. Phipps And Bowington Arches
Club: Guided tour with Sean Miller (Scapegoats of Escalante). Date: 05/16/2005 Parking: The parking is between 1 mi and 1 1/4 mi from the bridge over the Escalante River on Rt. 12 towards the town of Escalante. It's several miles north-east of the town of Escalante. Topo! Utah Trace: 2PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 2PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516_tpo.gpx Printable map: 2PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516Map.GIF Description File: 2PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 2PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516.gtm Photo Album: PhippsAndBowingtonArches_GPS050516 Warnings: no blazes or cairns. Quick sand in the Escalante River. Some rock climbing involved.
Hike 3. Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
Club: my scouting Date: 05/16/2005 Parking: From the town of Escalante, go w. for 1mi. to 1.5 mi. and there will be a sign on the r. saying smth. like "Escalante State Park". Turn and follow this road all the way to the end. Topo! Utah Trace: 3EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 3EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516_tpo.gpx Printable map: 3EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516Map.GIF Description File: 3EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 3EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516.gtm Photo Album: EscalantePetrifiedForest_GPS050516 Notes: very worth seeing. Very worth canoeing there as well.
Hike 4-5. Upper And Lower Calf Creek Falls
Club: me scouting Date: 05/17/2005 Parking: good on upper falls, but not trivial to find; very good on lower. Topo! Utah Trace: 4UpperAndLowerCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 4UpperAndLowerCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517_tpo.gpx; Description File: 4UpperAndLowerCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 4UpperAndLowerCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517.gtm Photo Album: UpperCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517; LowerCalfCreekFalls_GPS20050517 Notes: both hikes are out-and-back. Top trace shows the back part, but the bottom only shows one way. Thus the total distance should be doubled for it. Warnings: saw different snakes half the way up on upper falls and half way to the falls on lower falls. Both were huge. Seemed to be 6-7ft long and not skinny. Don't know if they were poisonous, but they didn't look like that - at least the heads were not large, which is typical of Rattle Snakes. Neither one was aggressive.
Hike 6. Hole-in-the-Rock Road and Trail
Club: my scouting Date: 05/18/2005 Parking: good Topo! Utah Trace: 5HoleInTheRockRd_GPS20050518.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 5HoleInTheRockRd_GPS20050518_tpo.gpx Description File: 5HoleInTheRockRd_GPS20050518.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 5HoleInTheRockRd_GPS20050518.gtm Photo Album: HoleInTheRockRd_GPS20050518 Notes: the hike is out-and-back. Only one way is shown. Thus, the distance should be doubled. Notice waypoints which primarily mark the road intersections. There are several great slot canyons that I didn't go to and the Devil's Garden, which I saw but didn't explore. Warnings: a real off road SUV is required to drive all the way to the end plus good off-road skills. Don't go there if rain is in the forecast. Notice a 600 ft. drop in 0.3 mi.
Hike 7. Kodachrome Basin State Park. Cottonwood Road. Grosvenor Arch
Club: my scouting with a couple from California Date: 05/20/2005 Parking: good, but unobvious. Topo! Utah Trace: 6KodachromeBasinStPk_CottonwoodRd_GrosvenorArch_GPS20050520.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 6KodachromeBasinStPk_CottonwoodRd_GrosvenorArch_GPS20050520_tpo.gpx Description File: 6KodachromeBasinStPk_CottonwoodRd_GrosvenorArch_GPS20050520.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 6KodachromeBasinStPk_CottonwoodRd_GrosvenorArch_GPS20050520.gtm Photo Album: KodachromeBasinStPk_CottonwoodRd_GrosvenorArch_GPS20050520 Notes: I didn't hike in the Kodachrome Basin St. Park, only camped, even forgot to put a waypoint for it. Grosvenor Arch is not a hike, but rather a drive-to. Cottonwood Road has gulches, in one of which we hiked. As in the previous hikes, both hikes are out-and-back. The first trace shows the whole hike, the second, only half of it. Warnings: slot canyons, which is where we hiked, can have a flush during or after the rain. During this process, water rushes through the narrow path and destroys everything on its way. Never hike there if there is a remote chance of rain!
Hike 8. Bryce Canyon National Park
Club: my scouting Date: 05/21/2009 Parking: great. Topo! Utah Trace: 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521.tpo; 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521_1.tpo Universal GPX format from Topo!: 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521_tpo.gpx; 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521_1_tpo.gpx Description File: 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521.doc GPS TrackMaker Trace: 7BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521.gtm Photo Album: BryceCanyonNP_GPS20050521 Notes: This place is the most beautiful in the world! GPS reception that day was very poor. The trace was very fragmented. I kept and posted this as the first trace, but added another one where I connected the missing sections. Even though there are 2 elevation profiles, this was one hike. First I did an out-and-back on the ridge - the out part is on the first profile and then the loop in the Amphitheater. Those can be done as 2 separate short hikes or one 13.75 mi. hike.
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