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Paria Canyon
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Paria Canyon 

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Image Type(s): Hiking, Wildlife, Scenery, Water

 

Page By: saussie

Created/Edited: Aug 2, 2008 / Aug 2, 2008

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Paria Canyon

Me and four others hiked Paria Canyon over four days in late June. This was my first time doing the hike and it was incredible. There were critters everywhere, everything from tiny tadpoles to bighorn sheep. Out of sight, mountain lions lurked, and down below, enormous caterpillars crawled alongside our feet. The canyon walls towered so high above, some areas never even see sun. We spent our days walking in the water and our nights sleeping on sand under the stars. We winded through Buckskin Gulch and ventured to one of the most remote and largest natural arches in the world too. We climbed over beaver dams and combed through reeds as thick as the South American jungle. And an epic ending to an epic hike, we came out of the canyon just as the Paria collided with the mighty Colorado at the Grand Canyon. To call it great is an understatement. To call it amazing is too. It was so much more.

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bighorn

itty bitty froggy

damselfly

lizard

we found a pelvis

Paria Canyon

Big Spring...

Buckskin

wide open and hot

relaxin'

caterpillarsaurus

Wrather Arch

looking up

another lizard

Paria River


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