We spent the weekend camping near Moab, Utah with a few friends. Photos of our campsite and hike on Sunday can be found in a different gallery by the name of "Fishers Towers..." We did our main hike on Saturday though, and these are the photos from that awesome experience. We drove to the Needles region of Canyonlands National Park, where we started our hike from the Squaw Flat campground / trailhead. One of my friends had attempted the same hike just a month before, and he had...
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We spent the weekend camping near Moab, Utah with a few friends. Photos of our campsite and hike on Sunday can be found in a different gallery by the name of "Fishers Towers..." We did our main hike on Saturday though, and these are the photos from that awesome experience. We drove to the Needles region of Canyonlands National Park, where we started our hike from the Squaw Flat campground / trailhead. One of my friends had attempted the same hike just a month before, and he had gotten lost and ended up doing a different hike, so we decided we would get it right this time. Our plan was to hike the Lost Canyon loop. It was supposed to be about a twelve mile hike, and it was a pretty hot day in the middle of July (we later found out a thermometer stationed in the shade nearby had recorded a high of 112 degrees) so we each brought lunch and 4-8 liters of water-- and of course I brought the camera-- but we still eventually ran out of water. More importantly, our friend made the same mistake as last time, and somehow all four of us managed to miss a sign directing us to the desired hike. Instead, we did another 12 mile hike that was just out and back to Peekaboo spring, seeing parts of Lost Canyon and Squaw Canyon along the way. The hike itself was mostly on slickrock, with a number of large elevation changes along the way. Luckily, right as we reached the turning point for the hike, storm clouds started rolling in, giving us a little extra motivation to get out of there. At that point, around Peekaboo Spring, there were also some Indian paintings that you could go right up to. They were not protected in anyway, but luckily they had not yet been defaced. So that was my experience with this hike: the landscapes were vast, beautiful, and completely desolate, the weather was incredibly hot but dramatically shifting, and the company was great, despite being bad with directions.
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