5.5 miles of hiking • 750' elevation gain •
It was not a trail I intended to hike, and not a trail at all.
Since my parents didn't plan to hike that day I asked to drop me off at a trailhead and let me hike for 3 hours. The trailhead was supposed to be 4 miles from UT 191 but when we got there it was a vertical wall... We found a trailhead at 6.5 miles and I was on the way on what turned out to be 4WD road. But it still was a good hike, just different from previous ones.
It was actually fun to watch jeeps climb up this rough road so slowly I could catch up with them on the next steep spot. On the way back I saw my road down the canyon so I cut off-trail from where my waypoint is, straight down a canyon and re-connected with the road near the trailhead (Williams Bottom on the topo). Since I had 10 more minutes, I climbed to Indian petroglyphs (barely visible fro the trailhead) and dinosaur tracks.
Kyle Meyer
May 30, 2011
Incredible photos.