[Leica] Little Wild Horse

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Thanks very much for posting!  I will put that place on my list of Utah 
spots, sometime away from tourist season if there is such a time. Excellent 
photos also.

Ken

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[mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Aram 
Langhans
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:42 PM
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Subject: [Leica] Little Wild Horse

By Goblin Valley State Park in Utah is a canyon called Little Wild Horse.  A 
very interesting hike.  With my wife and my 90 year old father-in-law, I was 
able to hike the first mile or so before my wife?s claustrophobia and my 
FIL?s 90 years said, turn back.  (that said, he is a mountain goat....)   It 
starts out fairly wide.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2431.jpg.html

There are lots of nice sandstone sculptures and features throughout the 
canyon.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2476.jpg.html

And I have never seen such twisted and convoluted sandstone anywhere.  
Amazing.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2453.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2471.jpg.html

It then narrows to just about wide enough to accommodate your feet and goes 
on for 40-50 meters that way.  Wife starting to panic.  To make matters more 
interesting, there were perhaps a hundred boy scouts there and when you get 
to these narrow parts, there is only one-way traffic, but no traffic cop to 
direct the flow.  So, as you meet 10 or 20 boy scouts half way through there 
is only one thing to do.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2464.jpg.html
climb the walls.  One lad found a nice hole to occupy while is comrades in 
the distance eagerly show off by making bridges for us old folks to pass 
under.  They had a blast, and it took my wife?s mind off the narrowness 
enough to make it through.  However, she did know she was going to have to 
come back, as we were not going to make the whole 6 mile loop through the 
canyon and back through Bell canyon.

Here is my father-in-law in a wider spot.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2470.jpg.html

He amazes me.  We are starting to notice him slowing down quite a bit 
between last fall?s trip and now, but I hope to be half as fit when I am 90. 
 For those who know the hike, last spring he hiked all the way to Delicate 
Arch in Arches National Park, when he was 89.

Comments welcome.

Aram





Aram Langhans

Semi-Retired (Retarded) Science Teacher
and unemployed photographer

?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson 


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