8 miles, difficult

We started up Fable Valley, then took a side canyon for a few miles with several pour-offs to climb or hike up and around. The terrain today was all rugged, climbing out of one canyon to descend into another. When on top, the views were colorful and vast, and today’s continued windy and stormy skies provided a dramatic background. The final leg today was to descend a huge section of what the book called “suicidal scree”, and even though we followed what could loosely be called a trail, it was pretty free-form. Dave loves this stuff, goes skipping down it practicallly. I take forever, but he’s good about waiting.

We made it down into Youn’g Canyon and have a lovely creek to sing us to sleep.

TRAIL NOTES:
We found Ryan Choi’s notes on this section to be really helpful.