The adventure continues in Little Wild Horse Canyon. LWHC is a slot canyon near Goblin Valley State
Park and it is usually done (as we did it) in a loop connected with Bell Canyon for an amazing 8 mile round trip jaunt. It's
a good thing we decided to do Capital Reef first because, as we found out, it rained majorly there and had a good 'ol flash flood through the canyon. This can be extremely dangerous as the water rises many feet in a VERY short period of time and there is no escape. Anyway, the flood left lots of pockets of water that we had to negotiate, sometimes stemming on the walls (straddling the water) and sometimes wading up to our mid thighs (VERY cold, cold water!). Ad
d to that some boulder hopping and other sundry fun spots and it made for a very exciting and adventurous hike! After you get through LWHC, you walk along an old jeep road for about a mile and a half and connect to Bell Canyon, another slot. All in all about 5 and a half hours. We enjoyed some awesome pizza, made trail side in our camp "oven" and, of course, an ice cold beer! A gorgeous day and tons of fun had by all!
The adventure continues in Little Wild Horse Canyon. LWHC is a slot canyon near Goblin Valley State
Park and it is usually done (as we did it) in a loop connected with Bell Canyon for an amazing 8 mile round trip jaunt. It's 
a good thing we decided to do Capital Reef first because, as we found out, it rained majorly there and had a good 'ol flash flood through the canyon. This can be extremely dangerous as the water rises many feet in a VERY short period of time and there is no escape. Anyway, the flood left lots of pockets of water that we had to negotiate, sometimes stemming on the walls (straddling the water) and sometimes wading up to our mid thighs (VERY cold, cold water!). Ad
d to that some boulder hopping and other sundry fun spots and it made for a very exciting and adventurous hike! After you get through LWHC, you walk along an old jeep road for about a mile and a half and connect to Bell Canyon, another slot. All in all about 5 and a half hours. We enjoyed some awesome pizza, made trail side in our camp "oven" and, of course, an ice cold beer! A gorgeous day and tons of fun had by all!
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