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The San Rafael Swell, as you approach the Little Wildhorse Canyon area.
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A nice cool morning. It is not long after you pass these trees that you run into a few obstacles.
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A nice Paintbrush in the cool morning sun.
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Into the narrows of Bell Canyon. Based on our experience and that of others, it is probably best to do the loop in a clockwise direction.
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Susie inspecting the rock walls.
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Some nice folks piled some rocks to make this climb doable.
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A boulder jam. If you are 7 feet tall, it is no problem. But shorter folks have to be more creative.
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Roger uses a bit of a jamming move to get up.
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Susie ended up hoisting herself up on her belly and stablizing herself.
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Some micro-arches on the canyon walls.
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Bell Canyon opens up and one uses a jeep road to climb up and around a point of land that separates the two canyons.
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Taking the jeep road back down, one leaves the road in a few hundred meters and goes down thru the gap to the right.
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Some interesting rock structures along the way.
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OK, into Little Wildhorse. Roger is inspecting one of the first pouroffs. It is always easier to figure these out if one is headed upstream, which, of course, Roger is not.
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Down in the floor of the pouroff, time to take a peek and turn around and resume hiking.
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The narrows get more interesting.
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It is hard to see far ahead, but Roger is getting ready to drop down into a hole.
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After it is clear that we can proceed, Susie takes the plunge.
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Now we start getting into some good narrows.
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Little Wildhorse opens up for a bit.
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The canyon tightens up.
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Getting nice and narrow. Barely a boot-width wide on the floor.
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One last shot before the narrows end and we see the sunshine.
