For a while now Noah has been planning this trip, he wanted to hike down 50 mile creek to Lake Powell, then paddle over to Davis Gulch via the Escalante Arm, and hike back up Davis Gulch. It is about 5 miles down 50 mile to the lake about 5 miles on the lake and then another 5 miles up Davis. Noah's dad Norm dropped them off at 50 mile then drove over to Davis and hiked down till he met them the next day in that canyon.
Here are Noah and Luke setting off on their voyage, with their boats on their backs!
The first night they slept in an alcove in 50 Mile.
Here is 50 Mile canyon
They are almost to the lake here, Noah is testing to see how deep the water is.
Finally they enter the lake!
Taking a break on the Escalante Arm
La Gorge arch
In Davis Gulch/the end of Lake Powell. A beautiful waterfall to welcome them.
Views of Bement arch and Davis Gulch from Norm's trek.
Back on their land legs in Davis Gulch
The steps out of Davis
Climbing out of Davis, Short but steep!
Climbing out of Davis, Short but steep!
Sunrise over the Grand Staircase
A beautiful, sucessful trip thanks to Luke (who was given no choice in the matter) and Norm the master route finder dispite misleading carins and difficult cross country route.
Noah is already planning his next trip 50 Mile creek to Willow creek!
2 comments:
Wow! THat is amazing (the hiking and the pictures.)
looks like a nice trip. jackie and i should visit next summer or something and we can all go camping, the only problem is that of the random stuff that we took to chicago our camping gear was part of it so it would be hard to take all our camping stuff on the airplane, maybe we could do a road trip or something? i dont know.
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