Snow Canyon 01.15.11

We took a little walk in Snow Canyon Saturday afternoon after buying a Senior Adventure Pass provided by the Utah State Parks department. The plan was to take pictures as we hiked portions of three trails.

We started at Upper Galoot parking lot and crossed the road onto Whiptail trail where we walked on asphalt for about 15 minutes mostly down hill. We connected to our right onto the Three Ponds trail which is a small sand path going mostly up slope. This we stayed on for about 20 minutes until it crossed the Petrified Dunes trail again turning back to our right. The plan was to walk these three sections and end up at a parking lot about a block above Upper Galoot parking lot. As you can tell by the wording that was the plan. We followed the foot tracks in the sand onto the Petrified Dunes and lost all trace of the trail. After exploring left to the edge looking down into West Canyon we doubled back and followed the lower ridge around to the right, found a wash with foot tracks followed them more to the right and ended back on Whiptail trail about a block below the Upper Galoot parking lot.

If we had gone in a straight line over the dunes we would have lost one of us over the edge or ended up not a couple because of blue smoke statements about "what have you gotten me into". We were back to the car in 65 minutes after leaving, feeling warm, and looking forward to finding out where the Dunes trail really goes next time.

On the way down canyon we stopped at the Pioneer Names trail and took some pictures along the way.
As we were watching every step on the other trails this will have to do for the first shots taken while hiking.

At the beginning of the trail.

 Looking up the side of the mountain above the tree.

 Snow in Snow Canyon with the living and the dead.

 We are all able to be framed in beauty if we look around us.

 Names are really on the side hill just not willing to climb up that day.