Chasing the Totality
Day Three: Escalante and Calf Creek Falls
Just a few miles down route 12 we plunged into the colorful Escalante River Valley. Our map showed a trail from the valley floor to Escalante Natural Bridge. Let's go!
Kiva Coffeehouse on a bluff overlooking the valley.A few more miles down the road we found ourselves at the trailhead for Calf Creek Falls. We hiked to the falls 12 years ago,
on a bitterly cold winter day. A rainstorm was brewing but we decided to take our chances.
, but the canyon was so beautiful — gray-green grassy
meadows billowing with sunflowers, purple asters and devil's paintbrush between vermillion rock walls streaked with desert varnish. The falls were flowing like mad and the ice green
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Next: Nine Mile Canyon