Ding and Dang Canyon

[Desertrat]

This weekend, took a trip down by Goblin Valley. It had been a while since I was down in this area and couldn't believe they had paved the road all the way to Little Wild Horse Canyon. That TH was crammed full of cars but we kept on driving. Our destination was a little further down the road. The trailhead for DIng and Dang had four other vehicles and one group was just getting done. We didn't hike to far before we were at the split.



We figured we would head up Ding and loop around into Dang and turn around if Dang was too much. We made it a ways into Ding before everyone else couldn't go any further. I hiked a short ways further to were the canyon widens and turned around.







After turning around we all hiked to Dang Canyon. We didn't make it too far up Dang before running into some ice cold water. That is where turned around and left.







It was fun exploring but I would like to see more of Dang, just gives me an excuse to return another day.

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[wes242]

I need to go hit up these canyons one of these days... Looks pretty sweet!

 

[Bill]

All the stemming over the pools and the half dozen climbs are what make Dang so much fun.

 

[Nick]

Great shots! I can't believe the road is paved all the way to LWHC now! Anyone know when that happened?

 

[Tyler]

Welcome to the forum! Ding/Dang are one of my favorites because every time I've hiked them there was either nobody in them, or if there were a few vehicles at the TH, I never saw them.

So the road is really paved all the way to LWH?? I wonder how they justify it running across Wild Horse riverbed?? Are they going to re-pave that every year? Crazy.

 

[HomerJ]

Great shots! I can't believe the road is paved all the way to LWHC now! Anyone know when that happened?

It was paved when I went there last November (my first time), so sometime before then...

 

[HomerJ]

I wonder how they justify it running across Wild Horse riverbed?? Are they going to re-pave that every year? Crazy.

If I remember right, it's cement with two or three culverts where the wash crosses...

 

[Bill]

The road was like that in September and its not really paved. Its more like tar, oil, gravel, that's been steam rolled and brushed.
Theres no way you could skateboard on it

 

[Tyler]

The road was like that in September and its not really paved. Its more like tar, oil, gravel, that's been steam rolled and brushed.
Theres no way you could skateboard on it

Damn, I was going to bring my long board.

 

[uintahiker]

Ding & Dang are a lot of fun. I've gotta get down there again.

 

[HomerJ]

This would probably make it down the road!