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March 26, 2017: Duke’s Slickrock Campground, Hanksville UT to Horseshoe Canyon Trailhead UT.
Late cowboy breakfast at Duke’s, then along Hiway 24 to the Horseshoe Canyon unpaved road and the trailhead. The Horseshoe Canyon hike begins with a 600 foot descent into the canyon, then you follow the river bed, encountering in turn four examples of 4000-2000 year-old rock art: High Gallery, Horseshoe Gallery, Alcove Gallery, and Great Gallery. Wonderful, ghostly elongated images, side-by-side, interspersed with miniature figures and animals. Terrific stuff.
Slept beside the car, cowboy style, until a few drops in the middle of the night had me relocate to the car: which, by the way, is pretty comfortable, with the passenger seat folding all the way back, and my NeoAir inflatable pad evening out the bumps.
2017 Utah Road Trip Duke's Slickrock Campground, Hanksville UT to Horseshoe Canyon Trailhead Petroglyphs.MOVMarch 27, 2017: Horseshoe Canyon Trailhead to Three Forks trailhead.
Another breakfast at Duke’s, then south down 95. Maps.me identified a side hike called Leprechaun Canyon, about a mile in length, which turned out to be wonderful: slot canyon eventually too narrow for me, and curved-in canyon walls similar to The Subway in Zion. Leprechaun Canyon wasn’t in the book - I just lucked onto it by sighting some parked cards at its entrance.
The next two hikes, #19, North Wash to Marinus Canyon, and #20, Hog Springs Rest Area to Hog Canyon, were in the book, but both boring - I quit early on both, parked off the Hiway a few miles south, and am now deciding whether to sleep again in the car: probably Yes, as the weather is once more threatening.
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