Posts Tagged ‘cold’
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Once we had permits in hand our plan was for April and I to take our 2month old baby down to Kanab and Page for a weekend of hiking, photos, and hotels. The weather in the area had been fantastic for the days leading up to our trip but there was a huge plunge in the temperature on the days allotted to us by our permits. It was going to be far too cold take the baby out hiking so April stayed home while Whitney and I made the drive down to Kanab and pulled into our hotel just as the snow started to fall. I never sleep well in hotels so I tossed and turned for most of the night dreaming about shooting some photos of the wave.
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Not much snow accumulated in Kanab that night but we were a little worried about the conditions of the House Rock Valley Road so we checked out of the hotel well before sunrise and headed off towards the wave. The further east we traveled the snow storm increased its production. (more…)
Tags: Arizona, cold, coyote buttes, coyote buttes north, epic, horseshoe bend, hotel, lottery, mud, page, permits, snow, the wave, Utah, winter
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
After weeks of planning and before our trip even started we were faced with the harsh reality that due to a possible government shut down we may have to cancel our trip to Coyote Gulch. Fortunate for us the shut down never happened so we were able to stick with our original plan.
Day1:
We left Orem at 7:30 and made it into the town of Escalante around 12:30. The only place open was a gas station so we ate a nutritious meal of microwave burritos and doughnuts then drove down the hole in the rock road. I had spent quite a bit of time mapping out all the routes in and out of Coyote Gulch and went with the easiest route from Chimney rock to make backpacking with the kids (4 and 7) as easy as possible. The route from Chimney to Hurricane has no established trail but the route was easy to follow. The last 1/4 mile is all slick rock and required a bit of trial and error route finding to get into Hurricane Wash.
April, Whitney, and Boys about 1/4 of the down to Hurricane Wash.
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Tags: alcove, backpacking, chimney rock, cold, coyote bridge, coyote gulch, escalante, family, glen canyon NRA, jacob hamblin arch, kids, national monument, nights, star trails, Utah, water, willis creek
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
After years of trying (and a few years of giving up) we finally scored permits to hike Coyote Buttes North and the Wave. A huge thank you goes out to Tyler and Alene for entering the lottery and inviting us to come along.
April, Clint, and I left Orem around 9am and made the long drive down south to Kanab. For the week leading up to our trip the weather reports had looked anything but promising with high winds, rain, and snow within the forecast. We stopped for lunch and then went to the BLM office to try and get Clint a walk-in permit and check up on road conditions for the House Rock Valley road. Luckily the bad weather forecast scared off the tourists and Clint was able to purchase a very rare day before walk-in permit for the Wave. A little under an hour later we were rolling down the House Rock Valley road looking for a place to camp. We quickly set up a mile south of the state line campground in a primitive site and drove to the wire-pass trailhead to make a quick hike down to Buckskin Gulch and back before dark.
April hiking down Wire Pass
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Great slot in Wire Pass (more…)
Tags: bryce canyon snow, buckskin gulch, cold, coyote buttes north, horseshoe bend, rim rock hoodoos, sunset, the wave, toadstools, winter, wire pass, witner
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