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

[Win]

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.

[Win]

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



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







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

[Win]

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



View up canyon:



Two Granaries with a nice pictograph on the wall:



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

[Felicia]

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

[tylerhirshfeld]

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

[oldno7]

I really great set of photos, Win.

Looks like a good time.

[blueeyes]

Lovely Win!

[Win]

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

The river was great:

[Iceaxe]

[mattandersao]

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...