Wild Horse Canyon

Above is a Google Map screen capture)

My last post was about Wild Horse Window where the gold pin drop is above.  Parking at the same locations in blue to the right you can also access Wild Horse Canyon.  The long black line under the gold pin drop.

Above is a screen capture of my tracked hike on AllTrails.

Enter ming the mouth of the canyon wash was this artistic engineered stone arch that someone made.

There are some narrow slot sections of the canyon.

Other areas of the wash look like above.

The sandstone is washed allowing a view of the sandstone layers.

Here is an interesting sandstone structure, where the lower sections are layering on its side and then new layers on top that are horizontal  



Here is a small wreck/window in the side of the canyon

I climbed up the side of the canyon and took this picture looking west through the Swell.

Here the canyon base is wide.

And here the slot in the canyon has caved in and creates an obstruction and required hiking up and over this spot.

It’s an easy slot canyon to hike but narrow in spots that created social distancing problems if you are to meet others coming from opposite direction.

This didn’t happen during this hike, although there were others on the trail.  At tis  BJ point I was carrying my face mask to put on if it was needed.

This is an easy hike to get to and to hike.  I hiked round trip at 4.2 miles.  You can hike further about another mile to get all the way through the swell.  The location of this hike is also not far from the unique Goblin Valley State Park, that is also fun to hike.

Happy hiking

Brent

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