[Leica] Little Wild Horse

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Most unusual place
Cheers
Jayanand


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2431.jpg.html
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> There are lots of nice sandstone sculptures and features throughout the
> canyon.
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> 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
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2471.jpg.html
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> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2470.jpg.html
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> 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.
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> Aram
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> Aram Langhans
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> Semi-Retired (Retarded) Science Teacher
> and unemployed photographer
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