PICTURES: Little Wild Horse Canyon. Pictures of Bentonite canyons posted on May 28.
It is getting hard to tell which adventure is the best, but today's was right up there with the greatest. We left early (for us, 7:30) and headed east on hwy 24 to east of Hanksville near Goblin Valley State Park. Five miles down the road to Wild Horse Mesa is the trailhead to Little Wild Horse Canyon, a genuine slot canyon. It is a half mile trail up a wash, a dry creek bed, to the canyon and WOW is all I can say. Beautiful, colored sandstone walls 100 to 150 feet high and in places less than 3 feet wide. It is 1 to 1 1/2 miles long until another dryfall at the end.
After resuming the trail, we were in the desert on the San Rafael Swell. We drove through miles and miles of Bentonite hills and canyons. It looked so "otherworldly" and was fascinating. Gary climbed down in the bentonite canyons and said he would like to spend a day following these canyons down deeper and deeper.
Wow, these canyons are unreal. I had to keep zooming in to see if that was a person in the last picture. So Nick wanted to know how these were formed...erosion or cracking in the rock? I'm sorry if I missed that lesson from earlier...
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