Guess the spot: Utah Edition

[Jackson]

Upper Red Pine and White Baldy.
My first backpack was to the lower, even more popular lake. For legal reasons, I do not recollect, but I may or may not have swam on the far side over there, sliding down the snow directly into the water.

Here it is when my daughter and I visited.
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You're up!

It was my wife's first backpacking trip as well. I didn't make it to the upper lake until a couple years later though. Great hike when you can go during the week and run into less people.

 

[Ugly]

You're up!

It was my wife's first backpacking trip as well. I didn't make it to the upper lake until a couple years later though. Great hike when you can go during the week and run into less people.

or in the 80's...

 

[Ugly]

I don't think I did this one before.

Since my mind is now on pools of water good for a dip.
Name the canyon or what is behind me.

 

[SteveR]

I don't think I did this one before.

Since my mind is now on pools of water good for a dip.
Name the canyon or what is behind me.
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Reminds me of Willow.

 

[Ugly]

Reminds me of Willow.

Willow it is! and solved even before I was done with my lunch break.

 

[Jazzy Joe]

I don't think I did this one before.

Since my mind is now on pools of water good for a dip.
Name the canyon or what is behind me.
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I've never seen that section so full, what time of year was that?

 

[SteveR]

Have a go at this one:

 

[Brendan S]

I’ll try obvious and go with Goblin Valley

 

[Jazzy Joe]

If not goblin valley then it is probably little egypt.

 

[SteveR]

I’ll try obvious and go with Goblin Valley

Close...really close.

 

[Bob Wire]

Close...really close.

 

[SteveR]

Due to lack of any further action- I'm going to give this to Brendan. The pic is not actually in Goblin Valley proper though- it's at the popular camping zone to the west along the way to LWH-Bell canyons etc. But I am recalling now that the spot in question was (is?) slated to be included in the expanded boundaries of Goblin Valley. Did that ever happen? The pic is from 2010, we camped at that spot again last fall and there were no indications of it being in the park, which I might assume would put an end to the dispersed camping.

 

[Ugly]

I've never seen that section so full, what time of year was that?

Sorry, missed this. So I will just drop it in as a quick aside. Memorial day weekend. The amphibians were quite twitterpated and about as loud as I have ever heard in any canyon down there. We actually got into the water more at the pool right after the little "subway" section by the arch.

 

[Brendan S]

maybe a little tricky here but you guys are smart

 

[regehr]

Well it's got kind of a DD look. Is this maybe the dome zone below Angel Point on the east side of the river?

 

[Brendan S]

Not in the DD area

 

[o2bav8]

near Hite?

 

[Brendan S]

near Hite?

That’s a closer guess than the DD but not especially close. I guess I can say I drove through Hite on the way.

 

[Titans]

Glen Canyon, maybe in the area of Llewelyn and Cottonwood?
(Have not been there and I don’t know how that relates to driving through Hite , but it’s worth a shot).

 

[Brendan S]

Glen Canyon, maybe in the area of Llewelyn and Cottonwood?
(Have not been there and I don’t know how that relates to driving through Hite , but it’s worth a shot).

It is taken from within GCNRA but you’re on the wrong side of Glen Canyon with Llewelyn/Cottonwood.