Out and About for a Few Days - Capitol Reef & Escalante

I took a few days off work and we headed up to Capitol Reef and Escalante. We drove up past Otter Creek and around Fishlake on the way to Capitol Reef, what a beautiful area.
When we got to Capitol Reef we did a hike from the hiway into Grand Wash, truthfully, not that exciting.

The next day I finally got to drive Cathedral Valley, weathered out on three previous attempts. Everyone should figure a way to do this, it's a remote, beautiful drive.

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The next daty was a travel day to Escalante, going down the Notom-Bullfrog road with a quick hike into Headquarter Canyon. There was a quite a crowd at Burro Wash that morning, I'll need to do that in Sept/Oct. Some pictures:

Along the Waterpocket Fold

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Took a short hike into Headquarter, didn't go too far past the first slot but it was definitely worth stopping:

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Drove out the Burr Trail to Escalante, what a great area.

Next day we did the 2 mile hike in Escalante Canyon up to the Granaries. The green of the foliage mixed with sandstone walls made it a beautiful hike.

Escalante Natural Bridge

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View up canyon:

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Two Granaries with a nice pictograph on the wall:

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After this hike we took a drive out Spencer Flat, what views! Didn't even take a picture just enjoyed the scenery.

Great looking trip! I love all the greenery. Thanks for sharing Win. :-)

Great pics Win, looks like alot of fun! Keep adventuring!

I really great set of photos, Win.

Looks like a good time.

Lovely Win!

Thanks, everyone, it was a really fun trip and we did most everything we wanted to.

The river was great:

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The South Desert Overlook picture is awesome (first one) that is one of my favorite overlooks I have ever been to! Just so desolate and...