cweston
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Post by cweston on Dec 2, 2020 11:32:08 GMT -8
rebeccad, IIRC, we only missed you by a few days on that trip. We camped at Elephant Canyon 3, which was a lovely camp, very well-positioned as a day-hiking basecamp. Although the camp itself was quite private, it was pretty close to the trail, so we were aware of people passing by pretty-much all the time. The trail was in the canyon bottom and the camp was a little above, screened by some scrubby foliage, so most hikers walked by literally completely unaware that our camp was there. But we did hear them, of course. Sounds like the CP camps might be a little more isolated. I completely agree about the NPS and their permit quotas. It's not my bag, but I fully understand why it is done that way, and, by and large, I think they've done a very good job providing reasonably private camps in reasonably appealing locations.
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Post by driftwoody on Dec 2, 2020 12:09:33 GMT -8
A nice little dayhike in the Moab area is Corona Arch. I liked that arch as much or more than any in Arches NP. Fewer people, too.
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Post by null on Dec 2, 2020 12:43:37 GMT -8
we actually didn’t see other campers Last time I was there (Sept 2019) we were at CP5 and saw nobody else that day. The day before that, we hiked by drive-up Devil's Kitchen and saw nobody there either. I wished we had reservations at Devil's Kitchen because it was really amazing (not that Chesler Park isn't amazing).
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 2, 2020 14:19:14 GMT -8
Sounds like the CP camps might be a little more isolated. Definitely--more like cul-de-sac vs. throughway. But the camps are pretty well off the trail, too, even if there were people on the trail.
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