3 To Arizona Photo Gallery by Brian Dickson at pbase.com

3 To Arizona

Hayduke Trail 3...We followed some more cool canyons to Bryce Canyon National Park, a beautiful series of pink and white 'hoodoos' or towers. From there we hiked south to pick up Buckskin Gulch and an area of fantastic swirling rock patterns called Coyote Buttes before arriving at the Utah/Arizona border. Check out our blog and 5 minute video too!
1 To Hanksville....2 To Escalante....3 To Arizona....4 Grand Canyon-Zion

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First day out of town and trying some cactus salad	Down,down,down! Descending into 'Round Valley Draw' slot canyon	Backpacks off to drop in to the canyon	Safely down!	Brian downclimbs
Beautiful striations	Round Valley Draw	Branches indicate flash flood levels...	We meet Micheal Geiss, the only other Hayduker we see	Round Valley Draw opens out
Sandy Hackberry Canyon floor - nice but slow going	Tadpoles with the drinking puddle	Coloured weeps above the tent	Moon rises over the tent	Crazy weeps
Hackberry Canyon	Brian looks at maps in shade	Hackberry Canyon	We climb west out of Cottonwood Wash	Yellow Rock
Slabs of swirling rock	Checkerboard		Looking back down to Hackberry Canyon	Brian at Yellow Rock
Heading south towards the Paria		The 'natural cairn' on Yellow Rock	Beautiful swirls	The 'Box' of the Paria River
Above the Paria river	Dust storm on the Paria River	Alkaline deposits make the water unsavoury to drink	Coloured banded rock alongside the Paria	Longhorn cattle grazing on the Paria made for some dodgy water
Footprints in the river mud- racoon?	Morning break	The Paria River valley closed in as we headed north upstream	Clouds roll in over the Paria River (B&W)
Martina collects our overnight water from a huge waterpocket found on the way up Bull Valley Gorge		Bull Valley Gorge	Bull Valley Gorge	Willis Canyon trailhead
Willis Canyon	Out of the canyons and on the dirt road to the town of Cannonville	We exit Grand Staircase-Escante National Monument	Good food and beer in the small town of Cannonville Utah	We enter Bryce Canyon national park with a trail!
Hoodoos in Bryce	Bryce colours	Bristlecone Pine	Bryce	Ground Squirrel
Bryce	Bristlecone Pine B&W	Bryce Canyon and its hoodoos	Raven	'Toadstools'
Our first selfie(!) hitching in a pick-up	We get a lift back to our last point from the amazing Jim Byrd	View south from Rainbow Point, Bryce NP	Brian at Rainbow Point, Bryce NP	We hike through stands of pondarosa near Riggs Spring
	Hiking jeep tracks with storms overhead	Precious water supply at Bullrush gorge	Camp	Campsite dinner amid a sea of rock slabs
	Park Wash	Brian speeds up heading into town!	Town! Kanab southern Utah	Crinoids in Buckskin Gulch
Brian falls foul of quicksand!			Heading towards Buckskin Gulch narrows
Buckskin Gulch	Buckskin Gulch	Buckskin Gulch with flash flood debris	Buckskin Gulch	Looking toward Coyote Buttes and 'The Wave'
Hiking at 7am over rock slabs	Coyote Buttes	Coyote Buttes	Coyote Buttes	Checkerboard rock
Coyote Buttes	Coyote Buttes	Coyote Buttes	Coyote Buttes	Heading into 'The Wave'
'The Wave', Utah-Arizona border				'The Wave'
'The Wave'	'The Wave'	Above 'The Wave'	Scrambling to a notch out of Coyote Buttes	Bushwacking!
Descending to the Arizona state line		Arizona state line!

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