Halls Creek Narrows

[neiloro]

Awesome Trip Report, Nick! I'll try to clean up my images and post some tonight.

 

[nathan mccreery]

Holy Crap! You wouldn't want to be doing any sleep walking there!

 

[neiloro]

Here are some pictures to complement @Nick's great set. I tried not to duplicate the same subjects.
Thanks for the great hike!

I see a little silhouetto...


The same tree, from the other side.


Care to venture what this was? It's what we were looking up at on our nice long break.


Nick in a wave of stone.


Nick and his Dirty Girls.


Clearly the Dirty Girls weren't all they were cracked up to be.


I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go



Nice light in the narrows.


The cactus were in bloom.


Fun formations on the way up to the overlook.


More fun formations on the way up to the overlook.


Nick looking down at the swimmer below.


Jen being Queen.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?


Nice light on the swell as we dropped back into the riverbed.

You can do it! Look, there's beer up here!

 

[Nick]

No escaaaape from reeeallittyyyy!

Sweet shots Neiloro! And way to get that song stuck in my head again!!

P.S. The dirty girls ruled until I spent 15 minutes walking back and forth in 2 feet deep gravel-mud!

If you can get past the video, it's a damn fine cover.

 

[Nick]

Care to venture what this was? It's what we were looking up at on our nice long break.

Now that I can see it better, I'm thinking Golden Eagle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gol...&biw=1768&bih=1323&sei=yQJ2UdOWMILNqQGUoICACg

Love to hear what others thing though.

 

[FourisTheNewOne]

Pretty confident that is a ferruginous hawk. https://www.google.com/search?q=fer...4DQ&biw=1920&bih=965&sei=HAh2UYy6Bcn2iQKQs4Eg

Awesome TR - makes me jealous to get down there soon.

 

[mattvogt7]

I saw a few posts back about going up over the fold and wanted to share a TR I stumbled on over the internet a few weeks back, from Halls Creek to the Escalante with some incredible photos. Your trip reminded me of it, anyways, here is the link - we need to get him on BCP : )!

https://outlivingblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/escalante-and-the-waterpocket-fold/

 

[Jen]

freakin awesome! was great to see all of you & be able to help you out!

thank you, friend, for your help. we had the best bonfire ever in such an awesome spot because of you!!!!

 

[Nick]

I saw a few posts back about going up over the fold and wanted to share a TR I stumbled on over the internet a few weeks back, from Halls Creek to the Escalante with some incredible photos. Your trip reminded me of it, anyways, here is the link - we need to get him on BCP : )!

https://outlivingblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/escalante-and-the-waterpocket-fold/

WOW. Thanks for posting that link, Matt! We do need to get him on BCP! What an awesome site!

 

[Ross]

Really glad you and Jamal pointed me to this Nick. Great TR. Hiking with beer - that's the way to do it. Great alcove shot with Jen - think you had a wider lens than I did as you got quite a bit of sand in with the roof for an amazing shot.

 

[Miya]

Wow! Gorgeous! I haven't had to cross such high bodies of water yet. It seems exciting to me though! Although I can't imagine being able to lift my pack over my head haha.

 

[CaptnKidd]

Thanks for that awesome write up! That has been on my top 5 places to hike for a long time, I really want to take it on after reading this.

 

[CaptnKidd]

Would getting to that alcove and back be an okay day trip? My daughter who is 10 really want to go on this hike with me but I would like to hike those exposed parts first to see what its like.

 

[Nick]

Would getting to that alcove and back be an okay day trip? My daughter who is 10 really want to go on this hike with me but I would like to hike those exposed parts first to see what its like.

I guess everyone is different, but this would be a really bad hike to do as a day hike, IMO. If you use the sketchy shortcut at the air strip, it's still like 5 miles one way to get to the mouth of the narrows. The standard route is closer to 10 miles one-way. Doing all that and turning around at the big alcove would blow. You'd miss out on pretty much all of it.

 

[CaptnKidd]

I guess everyone is different, but this would be a really bad hike to do as a day hike, IMO. If you use the sketchy shortcut at the air strip, it's still like 5 miles one way to get to the mouth of the narrows. The standard route is closer to 10 miles one-way. Doing all that and turning around at the big alcove would blow. You'd miss out on pretty much all of it.

Awesome, good to know, thanks.

Would it be less sketchy to go the standard route and not use the shortcut? I know ot would be longer but I have read it would be easier. And not in a day of course. Trying to keep my kids off of too many cliffs until they are a little older.

 

[Nick]

I've never done the standard route, but it should be far less sketchy. It's an actual trail down. The airstrip route is a fair amount of down climbing.

 

[CaptnKidd]

I've never done the standard route, but it should be far less sketchy. It's an actual trail down. The airstrip route is a fair amount of down climbing.

Nice, thanks.

 

[Ross]

yes nothing sketchy about the standard route (so long as obviously kids don't mess about on the edge of a big drop, but the hiking is pretty much just a switchback trail). It is quite tiring going back up if you're carrying much for a 10 year old at the end of 2 long days hiking (I'm assuming you're now thinking of hiking through the Narrows which you should do if you've gone all that way as the hike to them starts to get a little tedious). We were going to just stay one night down there, but enjoyed the Narrows so much that we went real slow through them and in the end decided to camp a second night halfway back to the TH as our tents were still up. Then we got up dawn the third morning and hiked up the cliff. I'm hoping to put a TR with lots of pics up this week, so you'll be able to see the whole route and how good the Narrows are, but there's obviously lots of nice pics on this TR too.