2020 Winter Camping Trip Day8, 2020/12/3
Second trial for the Wave permit: we didn't win. After 2 trials I felt already tired of it. After the lottery was done we headed for lower Hackberry canyon in Grandstaircase-Escalante. Mr.N wanted to hike Hackberry canyon for a long time. He read a hiking book about Grandstaircase-Escalante when he was a kid at his home in East Glacier, and he wanted to hike there. The opportunity came finally. I thought that he wanted to hike this canyon, because the name is huckleberry, which is an iconic berry in Glacier county in Montana where he is from. I asked it and he said no. He pointed out that the canyon name in Utah is hackberry and the berry in Montana is huckleberry. I didn't notice that until he pointed it out (Me as a non-native English speaker I don't hear such a small difference: hackleberry VS hackberry). Besides, Mr.N said that the reason I raised is too silly to make him want to hike the canyon.
OK, fine.
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Hackberry Canyon
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The canyon was cool (actually cold and view is cool as a meaning of spectacular), and the river in the canyon was frozen. Nobody was on the trail, and it was very quiet. Only sounds in the canyon was ice breaking sound. Every step we made broke the ice. The braking ice sound echoed in the canyon. That was interesting and idyllic. It was luxurious and lucky that the entire canyon was only ours.
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Broken ice after hike
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After a while the river width got much smaller and the geology changed. Now we didn't need to walk on ice, but dirt trail along the river. Interestingly, there are trees along the river. I didn't expect these trees in the dry desert. The structure was rocks-trees-river-trees-rocks.
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different geology
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Temperature got higher after sun warmed up desert and we had a lunch on the sunny area.
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| cattle |
This is BLM (Bureau of Land Management), meaning there are livestock. We saw a lot of cattle. They have big antlers and sometimes scary. We walked by quietly so that we don't disturb them.
Rock formations are extremely beautiful and I could sit and be in the canyon forever. I wish I could do that. It is simply wonderful to be there.
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love the rocks
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