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BMT to Death Hollow Canyon

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May 30, 2016 at 5:20 pm #3405766

Tim Drescher
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@timdcy
Locale: Gore Range

The Boulder Mail trail is a hike I’ve had in the back of my mind since I first started coming to the Grand Staircase-Escalante region back in the 00’s. When Tanner and I settled concrete plans to go for a spring trip, it didn’t take me long to nail down an exploratory trip to Death Hollow Canyon. The BMT from Boulder would be a means to get us there, and I knew we’d both have the gumption to find some of the more hidden nook during the three days we’d be out.

Link to full report

May 30, 2016 at 5:35 pm #3405768

Jon Fong / Flat Cat Gear
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@jonfong
Locale: FLAT CAT GEAR

Great write up! I have been thinking about this trip and now it’s on my list. Thanks!

May 30, 2016 at 6:30 pm #3405785

BlackHatGuy
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@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

Good stuff Tim, thanks for sharing.

May 30, 2016 at 10:28 pm #3405927

John Vance
BPL Member

@servingko
Locale: Intermountain West

Thanks for bringing back memories of walking there some years ago. I am not much of a desert kind of guy, but my hiking partner loves the area and I have to admit it is a great place. We mostly relaxed and swam in the pools and sunned on the rocks when there. We took a more direct route, parking at the Boulder airfield and heading due west. We typically camp in a covered amphitheater that has a very cool note book with camp registries back into the early 1900’s and a number of artifacts dating back much farther than that.

May 30, 2016 at 10:38 pm #3405930

Ken Thompson
BPL Member

@here
Locale: Right there

Never heard of Death Hollow Canyon along the Benton Mackaye Trail. Now it makes sense! Thanks for sharing.

May 31, 2016 at 9:04 am #3405996

Ben C
BPL Member

@alexdrewreed
Locale: Kentucky

Looks like a really fun trip. Is it all class I/II?

May 31, 2016 at 8:24 pm #3406197

Tim Drescher
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@timdcy
Locale: Gore Range

“We typically camp in a covered amphitheater that has a very cool note book with camp registries back into the early 1900’s and a number of artifacts dating back much farther than that.”

John,

You can PM me the details as to the location of that ;)

“Never heard of Death Hollow Canyon along the Benton Mackaye Trail. Now it makes sense! Thanks for sharing.”

Had to go with the abbreviation as my trip report titles get historically way too long!

“Looks like a really fun trip. Is it all class I/II?”

Ben,

The toughest hiking during this stretch is a bit of bushwhacking through thick vegetation and wading through the creek, sometimes as high as waist deep. We did a little bit of lower class 3 just for the hell of it.
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