Road trip part 3 - peekaboo gultch

I'd been wanting to check out Peekaboo & Spooky gultches for quite some time. Ever since the Flying Fish and I came here in the spring of 2000ish. That trip we walked in at Harris Wash - a half-day walk across the slickrock and a drop down to a quiet stream in a secluded side canyon off the Escante. For 5 days we saw one other campsite and no one, except the guy who wandered into a cave we'd found and asked if we knew where we were. He had a good idea of where he was but wasn't sure. We knew exactly how he felt. The river's a little windy and even an experienced navigator can loose track of the twists and turns on the topo.

We'd read about spooky and peekaboo but since it was snowing when we climbed back out at Fence canyon we decided to pass.

So I was really happy to have a day with nothing better to do than scramble through a couple slots. We parked on the rim and found a trail down the canyon leading to the mouth of peekaboo. A quick scramble up the 10' fall at the base led to a tear-drop shaped carved slot...



Peek-a-boo gulch...



Gets a little narrow in there...





We popped out to find a slight turn in the weather...


and we headed across the rim to Spooky gulch.

this is the third post in a series on the canyon country road trip
click the title of the first post in this series for a link to more road trip photos