Hiking Trail: A short trail leads up the north side of the neck of Bowknot Bend where the BLM has placed a visitor register. It is easy to hike to the saddle on the trail from the north side, but is it difficult to go down the other side as Raymond Austin Cogswell found in 1909: "Climbed down on S. side. Had a hard pull of it; had to run a long way to W. to get a chance to climb off ledge. Got a little way down; had to squeeze down a crevice and pull camera after. Risky if should lose hold."
Devergne Barber of the 1927 Pathe-Bray Expedition also had a problem going down: "Unfortunately we had brought no ropes along... Half way down we rimmed up... After many attempts, in which the nerve of every man was tested, by crawling on our hands and knees under an overhanging ledge, and then hanging by our hands and dropping about 12 feet, we found a place where descent to the river was possible... Incidentally, in making this drop it was necessary to fall flat on one's back for the shelf on which we fell was but a few feet wide and was followed by a sheer drop of 200 ft.
