Coyote Gulch is a truly awe inspiring place. The alcove and cliff walls rise up and span what seem an impossible height. For scale, on the image below, see those tiny black dots on far right shoreline? Those are hikers. To get here, I scrambled down a 700ft. sandstone wall, of course with my giant pack I wasn't able to scramble back out so it was a nice 18 mi. hike out of the gulch and through the desert to find my home base.
A view from Alstrom Point, a 180 degree stitched panorama looking out towards Lake Powell in the distance.
Zebra Canyon, for obvious reasons.
This magnificent hoodoo is with a patch of others, probably a 10 mi. hike up a wash just north of Big Water.
Just some random fantastic slot canyon.
A few more with the vantage from Alstrom Point.
This isn't a mirror image, its a 180 degree pano stitch of 14 wide angle shots, I'm inside a giant arch looking out onto the meandering river in Coyote Gulch.
These strange formations are called Moqui Marbles. I read the Wiki on how they were formed and its fascinating, and I won't butcher it by summarizing so just look for yourself. My favorite factoid was that they resemble very closely formations found on Mars which are aptly called Martian blueberries.
A storm rolling in over Lake Powell, a welcome sight on the 100+ degree day...
Where we're going, we don't need roads!
And just a few more random amazing canyon lands in the Escalante area....
See the little camp site down in middle? Go to the Gulch!!!!
