Exploring the Mountain West
Northern Utah is still socked in with late winter snow so I took another trip down to the San Rafael Swell to take advantage of the high desert weather and lack of snow. Temperatures were in the 20s overnight and up around 40 by day, so I chose to tackle a big hike in the…
The crux of this hike, at least in winter, is the crossing of Dirty Devil River. Normally this is a low-flow river in a predominately sandy watercourse, perhaps knee deep. I planned to hike down the 6 or so miles from Burr Point, then cross the river and hike up through Happy Canyon, returning by…
This one was personal. Two years ago I tried to reach Hondu Arch based on a two-sentence description in an old guidebook, but the route ended up being quite high-risk and I had my two teenage sons along. We turned around before reaching the arch and made our way back down the dangerous south canyon…