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04-14-2008, 02:24 PM #1
TR Timber Creek to the start of Icebox (Waterfalls) Canyon
Last Saturday 4/12/2008 my friend Nate & I hiked the start of Icebox Canyon in the Kolob Canyons section of ZNP. We used Tom Jones' beta and it was spot on. We hiked downhill on the La Verkin Creek Trail at Lee
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04-14-2008 02:24 PM # ADS
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04-14-2008, 03:07 PM #2
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Cool arch and frog shots! I love Icebox Canyon!
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04-14-2008, 03:08 PM #3Originally Posted by tanya
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04-14-2008, 04:27 PM #4
Nice TR and pictures. I really like hiking in the Kobob Canyons, this will go on a must check out list. I better take the wife soon, before the snakes come out to play.
WinQuoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
Utah photos: www.winpics.fototime.com
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04-14-2008, 04:43 PM #5
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Shaun....
Where was that arch? I don't remember seeing one on the way to Icebox Canyon?
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04-14-2008, 04:50 PM #6Originally Posted by Win
I think there are better trails/areas in the Kolob Canyon section. I wanted to do something in the back country, so pick this one to see the start of Icebox. If I ever do go back I would check out the giant alcove (in my pics, not the small alcove in the trail description) you pass it along the way. Again it would be a steep scramble up through the brush to get there, but I wonder if there are ruins or petroglyphs in there? If there was a place in the area it seems like this would be it?
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04-14-2008, 05:02 PM #7Originally Posted by tanya
Where is the arch located? See if you can follow my directions. While hiking along the Timber Creek bottom you come to a drainage from the north (left) that ends in a couple hundred feet (it's in your and Tom Jones beta) and a drainage to the right forms a small alcove. Above the dry fall (north drainage) and to the south along the cliff is the arch. Finding the weakness up the cliff band we came to the steep wooded ridge. We decided to quit hiking from there (not going to the pass into Icebox) but I wanted to get a better view of the area so I hiked east (left up canyon) to a ridge (spine) within the wooded ridge. From there I had a great view and spotted the arch to the southwest along the cliff wall. So if you were to follow the drainage from the north above the dry fall you would spot not too far off from the drainage the unknown/unnamed arch.
For reference, Tanya, the top part of the arch can be seen in this picture. Notice the tall cliff walls. On the lower right side of the picture there is a hump that juts up against the cliff wall (hump covers about the lower 2/3 of the picture). At the lower left corner of this hump is the top of the arch.
Close up of the arch. Pic from the same location as the previous picture. Notice how the lower left of the first picture and the top of the arch in the second picture match. Does that help now?
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04-14-2008, 05:09 PM #8
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Originally Posted by trackrunner
I think you are so adorable you do need an arch named after you.
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04-14-2008, 05:18 PM #9
Through best trial and error this gives me the cords of the arch. When I plug the cords into a map the arrow crosses over the arch.
N 37.44674 W 113.17333
Edit: bad spelling & grammar
Edit 2: this cord puts the arrow right on the arch. Notice on the satalite image the shadow from the arch to the west (left).
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04-14-2008, 05:23 PM #10
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~smooch~
Thanks!
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04-28-2008, 01:35 PM #11
Found out the name of the arch. Elephant Arch:
Elephant Arch
Elephant Arch is south of Cedar City, in the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park on the north side of the North Fork of Timber Creek in section 35, T. 38 S., R. 12 W. The arch can be seen from the terminus of the Kolob Road, or reached by hiking the first mile of the Kolob Arch Trail, then heading east towards the cliffs and along the creek until the canyon narrows. From the creek, scramble up the steep north side then east toward the west side of the arch. Located in the base of the Navajo Sandstone and the top of the red Kayenta Formation, the arch spans approximately 40 feet and is about 20 feet high.
http://www.ugs.state.ut.us/surveynot...s/ccarches.htm
Elephant Arch
Location 1:
Location 2:
County:
Arch Hunter:
Notes: Lee Pass
Zions NP
Washington
Lynn Sessions
aka Lee Pass Arch 7.5 Topo:
Latitude:
Longitude: Kolob Arch
N37
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04-28-2008, 02:45 PM #12
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