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Escalante Canyons, Utah - Thumbnails

These are pictures of my June 2000 backpack trip with Peter Fennessy to Escalante, Utah. Click a little picture to enlarge it. To see all the pictures in sequence, click the first picture (or here) and then just keep clicking the right-arrow for the next picture.

00 - Peter and I drove 1800 miles from Cleveland to Utah 01 - Southern Utah is a land of slick rock 02 - We started hiking up the Escalante River 03 - A cliff 04 - An arch 05 - Peter sitting on a rock 06 - Two of our campsites 07 - A reflective pool 08 - A cliff that looks like a thumb print 09 - Cliff vegetation 10 - Death Hollow - the half-barefoot Aussie hiker had a bad shoe 11 - The alcove that was our Death Hollow campsite 12 - Our alcove campsite 13 - A view from our alcove cave 14 - My one-person tent 15 - Two backpacks, Peter's and mine 16 - Death Hollow, Peter on a rock 17 - Death Hollow 18 - Death Hollow 19 - The upper Escalante River was dry 20 - A desert butterfly 21 - A cactus in bloom 22 - A desert flower 23 - A dead tree 24 - I climbed through this foot-wide slot canyon (front & back views) 25 - Cow dropping are common in this area 26 - Teva sandals, for basic transportation 27 - Cooking breakfast 28 - Ancient Anasazi rock art 29 - Ancient Anasazi rock art 30 - A pre-historic dwelling 31 - A desert snake 32 - Peter barely squeezes through 33 - Stones from the Escalante River 34 - A storm approaches our Boulder Creek campsite 35 - An old bone 36 - The view through an arch 37 - A lunch stop in a big cave 38 - A nice rock formation 39 - An unusual rock on the plateau 40 - Harry climbs through rocks - Peter rests on a homemade seat 41 - We walked the stream or followed primitive trails 42 - Cooling my feet 43 - Desert plants 44 - Breakfast with an Escalante Canyon Outfitters group 45 - The Tollefson boys 46 - A nice cliff 47 - We spent an afternoon in nearby Bryce Canyon 48 - Bryce 49 - Bryce 50 - Bryce 51 - A big arch in Bryce 52 - We spent a night in nearby Zion Canyon 53 - Zion 54 - Zion river walk 55 - Zion's Virgin River 56 - Zion's Virgin River 57 - Hurricane Wash trailhead - storm approaching 58 - Hurricane Wash narrows 59 - Campsite at Coyote Creek 60 - Desert flower 61 - Lobo (Jacob Hamblin) Arch 62 - Lobo Arch 63 - Lobo Arch 64 - Sandy trail 65 - Coyote Creek 66 - Coyote Creek 67 - Coyote Creek 68 - Coyote Creek 69 - Coyote Natural Bridge 70 - Coyote Natural Bridge 71 - Looking up at Coyote Natural Bridge - sky on both sides 72 - Coyote Natural Bridge 73 - Looking up at a cliff 74 - Rockslide area 75 - Rockslide area 76 - Jughandle Arch 77 - Two views of a big rock 78 - Waterfall 79 - Waterfall 80 - Great waterfall for washing off! 81 - Climb this to get up past a waterfall 82 - A spring with cold water 83 - Nice rock formation 84 - Coyote Creek 85 - Two Lizards 86 - A fine rock 87 - A jungle in the desert 88 - Val and Michelle, hikers from South Dakota 89 - Coyote Narrows 90 - A difficult rockslide to get around 91 - Cliffside green 92 - Coyote Creek twisting and turning 93 - Monument 94 - Seaweed 95 - Cliffs 96 - Desert plants 97 - Crumbling pieces of sandstone 98 - Waterfall 99 - Our last campsite was a football-field size cave, bigger than this

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