Sunday, September 12

We had a leisurely start to the day and left Kodachrome heading northeast on Hwy 12 through Escalante and beyond. We passed through more sagebrush strewn rolling plains sprinkled with red grasses and the bright yellow-flowered rabbitbrush. We encountered white and yellow hoodoos prompting Mike to quip, “Oh, these are the Caucasian and Asian hoodoos.”  Not PC perhaps but made me chuckle.

We got out and climbed over some hard slickrock and cruised by white, pink, and cement gray rock cliffs. Mark had a CD of grand organ arrangements of hymns playing. This whole trip we have been meandering through various strata of colorfully named cliffs--Chocolate and Vermillion Cliffs plus White, Gray and Pink Cliffs.

We found a campsite at the Calf Creek Recreation Area and prepared to hike to the well known Calf Creek Falls. It is a 6 mile interpretive hike along the Calf Creek to a 126 ft waterfall. It took us three hours but was a beautiful and interesting hike.

pictographs viewed from across the creek along the trail