in this episode
can you hear the wind out there it seems to be the norm for escalante utah to be
very windy the majority of days at least that's been my experience when i've been here if you
missed my video last sunday i have been hunkered down outside of escalante utah for over a week now
doing upgrades on the trailer my friend dan met me here at this amazing free campsite a
blm which stands for bureau of land management campsite and he has done so much work on the
trailer i say he because i've only lent a hand here and there i give him all the credit it's
been amazing so we have been here doing that and also adventuring in between it's been awesome
having the larger tank capacity on this trailer because i still have a lot of room in all my tanks
and still fresh water so that could be out here for easily another week i'm just sipping on some
hot tea on a cold blustery afternoon and the reason i'm checking with you in the afternoon
as opposed to the morning like i typically do is because i will be getting ready to go on a hike
in the morning that i have never done before which i'm very excited about and i'm excited
to take you along tonight for dinner i'm just having a simple quesadilla i have leftover taco
meat from the tacos that i made last night and i'm gonna get my backpack all set up and ready to go
and get ready to take off on this hike in the morning you can see the dirt flying out there
with one tiny little market in escalante you definitely have to make your food stretch and that
means leftovers but it looks yummy turkey taco meat and cheese and i'll top it off with salsa
holy moly i am stuffed i ate that whole quesadilla i'm definitely going to need to do a hike tomorrow
i will see you all in the morning good night
hole in the rock road is an unpaved road that starts 4.5 miles east of escalante
and reaches the edge of glen canyon after 55.5 miles there's lots of
adventure to be had along this rough road getting there is the hard part
good morning i can think of worse places to spend a lovely morning this is
the gorgeous dry fork canyon behind me and the trail that i was alluding to that i'd be hiking
today is the dry fork canyon peekaboo loop spooky canyon loop i think i got that right
i'm not sure how much of it we're going to do but we're just going to hike on and see if we want to
do the whole entire thing or just a portion of it but it's going to be beautiful no matter what
we decide we picked it absolutely awesome day to be here there's a little bit of a chill in
the morning here and it's not supposed to get hot today temps i don't think are going to get above
70. i think it's going to stay in the 60s no wind and just a gorgeous day
the crux of this hike was quickly approaching the entrance to peekaboo canyon
at first glance it did not seem like a big deal this is gonna be interesting
this is a little more intimidating wouldn't you huh yeah
um a little scary
oh my god this is the only thing i had a question about
okay you're doing it catherine
you gotta have three good points that
every yep and you can't get three right here good job okay wow oh there you go awesome hang on
kind of push your body up against the rock like i did
out of your comfort zone
you got it
it's a lot harder than it looks
it looks hard
this has definitely been an adventure today it's been awesome though
almost looks like it'd be impossible to get through here
holy smokes this has been fun we just came out of the slot canyon i uh switched over to
my phone it was just too difficult to film with the sony and the tripod in that canyon what a day
made it back to camp and wow that was a fantastic hike it was definitely challenging in some areas
the entry point into peekaboo canyon is about a i'm going to say 12 to 15 foot vertical wall
when at first when i first glanced looking at it i thought it wasn't going to be a problem
however once i started making my way up it it got to the point where the footholds and
the handholds were just when we were in very awkward positions i couldn't get three points
of contact so i kind of got stuck there for a while however i finally realized that if i just
put pressure on my back and pushed my back against the wall behind me and just kind of
maneuvered myself up that way that i could get up we had a whole group of people come behind us
and luckily there was a couple that was willing to help in conjunction with all of us giving
moral support one guy got down on the bottom i believe his name was steve and kind of just
helped push a bunch of ladies up that were in a group together and then his uh significant other
cat actually was up at the top you know helping people up and it was cool it was a great
display of teamwork and just looking out for each other's back it was awesome it was
a great experience actually we started out at the dry fort canyon and dry fork narrows which
i guess the blm told some other hikers there that's an introductory to slot canyons
i think most anybody could do the dry fork narrows portion of it and then entered into the peekaboo
canyon which like i said had some challenges and even once you got over that big wall there was
some scrambling to do inside the canyon but it was just beautiful we had such a beautiful day
beautiful weather i'm looking out at the clouds right now in front of me the blue sky with white
puffy clouds the temps were mild there was a nice cool breeze no wind no strong significant wind
which has been the norm out here so we picked a perfect day to do this the plan for the evening
is to have a campfire which has not been able to happen since i've been here which has been over a
week now because of the wind i think it's going to be calm enough to actually enjoy a campfire
probably my only one during the trip here roast some hot dogs and just chill out this evening
i know i was talking about oh my god
you guys are just crazy
what an amazing way to close out just an awesome day it was a beautiful hike beautiful scenery
perfect weather this has been an amazing campsite and a great place to stay don't have too much
longer here before it's time to move on i'm going to go ahead and close out this video here
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