Little Wild Horse Canyon

Henry on our last morning in Moab, sitting next to the bacon. His favorite place to be. He probably ate half a pound on his own.

Our next stop was just outside of Goblin Valley State Park- Little Wild Horse Canyon. It was a decently long drive down a gravel road, so we expected it to be a fairly empty hike. Turns out we were pretty wrong about that. It was super crowded. Lots of crazy youth and scout groups and plenty of family groups. This hike seems to have a reputation for not being too difficult or complex, so it attracted a lot of people on a warm day. Caleb found this to be very annoying, since he likes to enjoy his nature alone, but for the most part we didn't have too many encounters that troubled us.

The hike was through an empty river bed and the canyon narrowed down to these beautiful slots pretty quickly. Of course, my hiking partners wanted to climb on every possible thing, so they learned some new skills for scaling the walls.
Henry would walk through the straight canyons just like this, a hand on each side and face to the sky. Love it.

Caleb was really loving the canyon, so we have tons of pictures of the back of the 3 of us hiking, from him following along with the camera.

A guy from Caleb's lab that had done this hike had told him that he might not want to take a 6 month pregnant wife there, since I would probably get stuck in the canyon. At first I was super offended- "How fat does he think I am?" But we did reach a few really narrow spots that were a bit tight... though I didn't come close to getting stuck. Caleb found it pretty amusing.