Zion: Hidden Canyon

We're talking Indian Jones.
(I know you're thrilled, mom.)

So much of your experience on this trail is determined by how far you go.

Hidden Canyon Trail is off of the main trail up to Observation Point (Weeping Rock Trailhead). It has some quickly ascending switchbacks that then lead to stone-hewn stairs and narrow ledges complete with chains mounted in to the rock wall as a handhold lest you slip a little on said ledges. After this obstacle course there is an unmaintained trail that will take you as far as you wish to go.

We wished to go just a relatively short way down the canyon to where there is a small free-standing arch. That became our turn around point.

Hike details (completed in conjunction with the Observation Point hike):

Total Distance: 2 miles (+ 8 miles on the Observation Point hike)

Total Time: It took us about 2 hours.

Hiked on Monday, September 10, 2012.

Hold on to your butts!

These roots were handholds over this slickrock incline.

This blogpost is the perfect opportunity to mention our friend with whom we traveled to Zion. He has a broken arm. It's in a cast-sling thing. The only thing it isn't, is duck-taped. At one point, as usual, our friend traveled ahead of us on his ridiculously long legs. We asked a group of people if they had seen our one-armed friend.
They said, "Yeah, he's standing at the top of a really big, slippery, steep rock."
Of course he is.

We made it!