Wild Horse Window

[Udink]

It's still a little hot in the desert for any serious hiking, but my kids (ages 7 and 9) and I did the short hike (about 3.5 miles round-trip) to Wild Horse Window yesterday. Temps were in the low-90s, but we had plenty of water and stopped to rest in the shade a few times.

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We started the hike at noon and returned to the car at about 2:45PM. We first went through the small narrows in Wild Horse Canyon, then scrambled up the slickrock and found our way to the drainage below Wild Horse Window. There was a surprising amount of water in some of the potholes in the slickrock, must be from recent rain.


The boys at the start of the hike


Heading into the "kiddie narrows"


Playin' around


Almost done with the short narrows section


Heading up the slickrock


Above a few pools with lush vegetation


Tadpole shrimp


Leaving a pool that's obviously used by bighorn sheep


Across the sandy patch below Wild Horse Window


Another pothole full of water


The twin alcoves, the one on the right being Wild Horse Window


The skylight


Looking into the arch from above


Another shot from above, looking out into the San Rafael Desert


My youngest scrambling up some steep slickrock



After the hike, we found a nice spot to eat lunch near Goblin Valley


Parked in the shade of a cottonwood


Swinging on the tree


Wild Horse Butte


San Rafael Reef


Another shot of Wild Horse Butte from near the LWHC trailhead



Here's a slideshow with more photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis.U...ldHorseWindow#


Edit: It looks like both the embedded Google map and the Picasa slideshow are broken on Bogley. I checked a couple of my past trip reports where the map and slideshow were working well before, and they're no longer displaying correctly. You can use the direct links to the KMZ file and my Picasa albums to see the hiking route/waypoints and a lot more photos.

[ibenick]

Awesome!

[JONBOYLEMON]

Fun trip. I have never been to the Window.So I'm not the only one who cant get the Picasa thingy to work.....

I think the heat is on its way out. Time to start planning S utah trips!!!!

[Sombeech]

Edit: It looks like both the embedded Google map and the Picasa slideshow are broken on Bogley.

Dang, you may be right. Crap, let me see if I can fix this ASAP. Maybe google changed their code

EDIT: The problem might be fixed now, we'll have to keep an eye on it. Thanks.

[DiscGo]

Udink- Between all of your cool hikes you take your kids on, and our afternoon of Geocaching together, I just want to tell you that I think you seem like you must be an awesome Dad! Way to be!

[accadacca]

That tadpole shrimp pic is cool!