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Utahcaller
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Yes that area is a very cool place indeed. The vastness of the all of the open spaces is amazing.
22magnum22
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I was thinking of the same thing Clarence. Just took another look and I'm thinking headwater of a spring. Appears Dave is filling a water bottle??
That is a spring fed creek. Most years, normal years, it flows year round. Last few years, it hasn't. By mid summer there are small sections just out from the springs that flow a tiny trickle, but it mostly gets swallowed up by the sand and disappears.
That's not me filling the water bottle but one of my buddies - I was taking the picture. It's the waterhole for one of my favored backpacking camp spots. It's only ten miles in from where I can park the Jeep. Last year, in May, my Daughter and I packed in there for three nights. First day, that little waterfall was pretty weak. By the time we left, it wasn't flowing at all.
Long term, sustained drought is a bitch.
The stream usually still flows a tiny bit at night, even in the warmest months. It's pretty weird to see, actually. Bone dry stream bed in the heat of the day, but 2AM there's a trickle of water flowing - that disappears again by sunrise. That trickle leaves pools in bedrock. So you can find water even in this drought, even in the hottest months. But, you do need to know how to look. And even knowing how, sometimes it's kind of a long dry process.
Backpacking the desert is all about finding water.
This is a different canyon, but the trip turned out to be defined by searching for water. Found this pool about three miles from where we'd camped and hoped to find it. The six mile round trip for it didn't seem like any big deal after finding it. But the three miles out to find it in the first place was starting to feel a little desperate
.
Found water here the next day.
And me feeling pretty good about being hydrated and not needing to hike any further for the day.
- DAA
That's not me filling the water bottle but one of my buddies - I was taking the picture. It's the waterhole for one of my favored backpacking camp spots. It's only ten miles in from where I can park the Jeep. Last year, in May, my Daughter and I packed in there for three nights. First day, that little waterfall was pretty weak. By the time we left, it wasn't flowing at all.
Long term, sustained drought is a bitch.
The stream usually still flows a tiny bit at night, even in the warmest months. It's pretty weird to see, actually. Bone dry stream bed in the heat of the day, but 2AM there's a trickle of water flowing - that disappears again by sunrise. That trickle leaves pools in bedrock. So you can find water even in this drought, even in the hottest months. But, you do need to know how to look. And even knowing how, sometimes it's kind of a long dry process.
Backpacking the desert is all about finding water.
This is a different canyon, but the trip turned out to be defined by searching for water. Found this pool about three miles from where we'd camped and hoped to find it. The six mile round trip for it didn't seem like any big deal after finding it. But the three miles out to find it in the first place was starting to feel a little desperate
.
Found water here the next day.
And me feeling pretty good about being hydrated and not needing to hike any further for the day.
- DAA
Spurchaser
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Nothing like an early morning burn…
