:: Peek-a-boo! Our awesome adventure in Coyote Gulch ::
Yesterday we headed out on a 3 hour trek to Escalante, UT (our favorite spot!) to do some hiking and exploring. Our goal was to find two canyons, Peek-a-boo and Spooky. Harry was very worried that Spooky had ghosts, but we reassured him that there were only probably bats and spiders :)
When we arrived at the parking area, we had QUITE the hike down into Coyote Gulch. The kids did great -- such good hikers. It was snowy and hard to find the path. We made it and the first slot canyon we saw, we entered. We "thought" this was peek-a-boo.
View from the start of our hike.. we had to walk about a mile straight down.
A cute lil' hiker
We later learned that this is called "Dry Fork Narrows" and NOT peek-a-boo! Whoops! It was aprox. 1 mile long and definitely worth "stumbling upon." It was the longest and most beautiful slot! And very easy for kids.
JJ really has taken to rock climbing. He's awesome at it, too. He was real chilly in the slots, though. He was so shivery!
We met only one other sole along the way, a guy we saw in the parking lot. He confirmed this was peek-a-boo (which it wasn't!!) so the whole time we thought we were in the right spot! He snapped our pic here.
Check out super dad!
Okay, so just as we were going to leave to go back to our car (it was now pushing 3:30 PM and we had a long hike and drive back..) we decided to walk down the wash a bit to find "spooky" (thinking we had just finished "peek-a- boo". To our very very happy surprise, we found the REAL peek-a-boo! We knew it was the right spot because all of the websites we read said that the hike INTO peek-a-boo was a 20 foot ascent using natural footholds and a double arch would be seen. We found it! but, now... could we get the kids up there?!
Well, this was probably the riskiest hiking we've done because we literally pushed them up and made them climb (haha.. we really did!) but they wanted to go! and they made it. I am especially proud of harry who pulled his own weight up there. It was beyond amazing.
Double arches and trippy walls, narrow spots and places you have to crawl under. This is actually suited perfectly for kids!
Most spots the kids "slid down" .. it was like a natural playground.
Tight spaces
Most people go to the end of peek-a-boo, and then follow a trail to Spooky, and come back down through Spooky (a darker, more narrow canyon that is not for claustrophobes..) we just didn't have time to find it. Next time!
When we arrived at the parking area, we had QUITE the hike down into Coyote Gulch. The kids did great -- such good hikers. It was snowy and hard to find the path. We made it and the first slot canyon we saw, we entered. We "thought" this was peek-a-boo.
View from the start of our hike.. we had to walk about a mile straight down.
A cute lil' hiker
We later learned that this is called "Dry Fork Narrows" and NOT peek-a-boo! Whoops! It was aprox. 1 mile long and definitely worth "stumbling upon." It was the longest and most beautiful slot! And very easy for kids.
JJ really has taken to rock climbing. He's awesome at it, too. He was real chilly in the slots, though. He was so shivery!
We met only one other sole along the way, a guy we saw in the parking lot. He confirmed this was peek-a-boo (which it wasn't!!) so the whole time we thought we were in the right spot! He snapped our pic here.
Check out super dad!
Okay, so just as we were going to leave to go back to our car (it was now pushing 3:30 PM and we had a long hike and drive back..) we decided to walk down the wash a bit to find "spooky" (thinking we had just finished "peek-a- boo". To our very very happy surprise, we found the REAL peek-a-boo! We knew it was the right spot because all of the websites we read said that the hike INTO peek-a-boo was a 20 foot ascent using natural footholds and a double arch would be seen. We found it! but, now... could we get the kids up there?!
Well, this was probably the riskiest hiking we've done because we literally pushed them up and made them climb (haha.. we really did!) but they wanted to go! and they made it. I am especially proud of harry who pulled his own weight up there. It was beyond amazing.
Double arches and trippy walls, narrow spots and places you have to crawl under. This is actually suited perfectly for kids!
Most spots the kids "slid down" .. it was like a natural playground.
Tight spaces
Most people go to the end of peek-a-boo, and then follow a trail to Spooky, and come back down through Spooky (a darker, more narrow canyon that is not for claustrophobes..) we just didn't have time to find it. Next time!
