The Hayduke Trail is an 850 mile hike across Utah, involving some very difficult route finding, rock climbing, long water carries upwards of 35 miles, and all while passing through some extremely remote areas! In this particular section we are hiking away from the town of Escalante off to the west, near Coyote Gulch and Spooky Slot Canyon. Going up Fifty Mile Mountain and entering some of the most unknown areas in the entire United States.

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We hitch hiked into Escalante to get more food and supplies, and then back down Hole in the Rock Road to get back to where we left our trail off. Escalante is the greatest town along this entire trail, and I think it's one of the best trail towns along any long distance trail I have ever done! The Pacific Crest Trail or Appalachian Trail included, the town of Escalante has them all beat and is very much so worthy of a zero day or rest day.

We had just completed Coyote Gulch and are now heading west into what we hear is the largest expanse in the United States which does not have a road! We likely won't see a single other person for days on end out there, or more than 80 miles. Not many have ever gone through this area on foot aside from Hayduke Thru Hikers. This would be Fifty Mile Mountain on the Kaiparowits Plateau, a tall ridge that extends north and south from Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Recreational Area all the way north to Escalante.

This being one of the highest points on the Hayduke our first night was cold, well below freezing. Naturally our second day down into Monday Canyon, Rogers Canyon, and Navajo Canyon would involve a 36 mile water carry along with some really difficult navigation and scambling.

Monday canyon is short at around 8 miles in length, but it is by far one of the most notorious sections of this entire trail (next to Saddle Canyon and the Tapeats River.) A lot of hikers hear horror stories, and skip this section all together, just because of Monday Canyon. I think the 8 miles took us somewhere around six hours to get through, and certainly all of the challenges lived up to the hype. Large boulders to climb up, under, or around. Bushwhacking in between those boulders. No water forever, and somehow to add on to all of this, cows who are also stuck in this remote location, and unhappy to see people.

The worst part of this is the water carry, at 36 miles long it is the longest stretch on this hike where we will not see any water. What makes this extra maddening is that you do see water! Constantly throughout these canyons there is tons of water. All of it however is undrinkable. The water contains magnesium sulfate, and will make you very sick. The guidebook said it like this, 'any hiker who chooses to drink from these canyons... will run out of toilet paper very quickly.'

The challenges in these canyons turned out to be tedious and slow, but overall I enjoyed.

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