Paria river backpack

Starting out in the evening at the White Pass trailhead for the Paria	Pleasant evening light in the first few miles of the Paria	Oct 2016 Utah Paria river Our first camp	Second day and the Paria canyon narrows....	Paria canyon	Paria canyon
This is the 'slide' on the Paria just above its confluence with Buckskin Gulch	We left our backpacks at the confluence and hiked up Buckskin Gulch	Buckskin Gulch	Snake in Buckskin Gulch	Back in the Paria which is wider than Buckskin but with more water	An alcove on the Paria
Paria canyon	Camp 2 cooking	An area called the goosenecks of the Paria	Paria canyon	Paria canyon	The canyon widened a little to allow more sun in!
Paria canyon	Paria canyon	'Adams pump' which was in 1938 to be used to pump water up to the plateau but never functioned	A side trip up lush Wrather canyon	Wrather canyon datura	Wrather canyon arch
Wrather canyon	Drying mud!	Back in the Paria	Rock art	Paria canyon	Paria canyon
v	Oct 2016 Utah Paria river Our camp at the last good springs on the Paria with 15 miles to the Colorado at 'Lee's Ferry'	The next morning the river rose a couple of meters and turned chocolate with mud, silt and branches...flash flood!	We were lucky to be camped high above the river and to be through the narrowest part of the Paria canyon	We set up some sticks to monitor the height of the river -which was now uncrossable	A raven looks on thoughtfully...
After a couple of hours we hike onwards with some bushwacking on the willow banks to stay out of the river	Hiking down on flats above the river for a while	Some sapling cottonwoods	Cowboy graffitti	We were forced to climb high above the riverside cliffs to avoid a river crossing	It got super hot and found a little shelter under a rock
Someone else had done this a long time ago as there was a sheep petroglyph!	Brian beside the sheep in the shade	Open slopes above the Paria river	Our camp at 'Wilson ranch' which we hoped would have a spring but it was dry	Hiking out to the confluence the next morning	Exiting the Paria near Lee's Ferry
Made it to Lee's Ferry then down to Marble lodge for a long hitchhike!