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09-20-2010, 12:48 PM #1
Wild Horse Window
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.
Viewing on a mobile device? Click this link to open the map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fcastlecountry.org%2Fgeo%2FWildHorseWindow.kmz&sll=39.59941,-110.810715&sspn=0.064679,0.169086&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12
http://castlecountry.org/geo/WildHorseWindow.kmz
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.
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09-20-2010 12:48 PM # ADS
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09-20-2010, 01:08 PM #2
Awesome!
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09-20-2010, 02:24 PM #3
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!!!!
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09-20-2010, 08:01 PM #4
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09-21-2010, 09:22 AM #5
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!
"My heart shall cry out for Moab..." Isaiah 15:5
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09-21-2010, 11:25 AM #6
That tadpole shrimp pic is cool!
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