Hatchcanyon
05-03-2012, 07:13 AM
This is only a very short trip, but I like it!
Well Draw (http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/index.php)
Six miles north of Hanksville a view point is located beneath Hwy. 24. The landscape is colorful and always some people stop there to take pictures.
Only a short distance to the north a partly sandy trail leads in a western direction. After not much more than a mile this trail reaches a wash. My Topo Maps told me that this ist Well Draw.
Driving down to the wash needs only some minutes and we got some nice pictures. It also needed only these few minutes to create a thunderstorm west of the wash moving obviously in our direction. So we took the pictures and left the wash area.
Strange pillar:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3114_9.jpg
Another "monument":
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3115_9.jpg
Well Draw and Big Wild Horse Mesa:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2059_9.jpg
Someones rest in Well Draw:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2063_9.jpg
Well Draw to the south:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2068_9.jpg
First dark clouds:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2069_9.jpg
Dark sky has a lot of contrast to the sandstone cliffs:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2070_9.jpg
On the way back to Hwy. 24 a hill with more "monuments" for the future:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3117_9.jpg
Next time we try to travel down to Muddy Creek. Hope to find some colorful landscape.
Well Draw (http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/index.php)
Six miles north of Hanksville a view point is located beneath Hwy. 24. The landscape is colorful and always some people stop there to take pictures.
Only a short distance to the north a partly sandy trail leads in a western direction. After not much more than a mile this trail reaches a wash. My Topo Maps told me that this ist Well Draw.
Driving down to the wash needs only some minutes and we got some nice pictures. It also needed only these few minutes to create a thunderstorm west of the wash moving obviously in our direction. So we took the pictures and left the wash area.
Strange pillar:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3114_9.jpg
Another "monument":
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3115_9.jpg
Well Draw and Big Wild Horse Mesa:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2059_9.jpg
Someones rest in Well Draw:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2063_9.jpg
Well Draw to the south:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2068_9.jpg
First dark clouds:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2069_9.jpg
Dark sky has a lot of contrast to the sandstone cliffs:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/_DSC2070_9.jpg
On the way back to Hwy. 24 a hill with more "monuments" for the future:
http://hatchcanyon.eu/Navigation/USA/Utah/San_Rafael_Swell_S/Well_Draw/PICT3117_9.jpg
Next time we try to travel down to Muddy Creek. Hope to find some colorful landscape.