4th Annual Hassey "Goat Vacation"

[Nanno]

Our final day in Escalante was probably the best. We hiked a portion of Bighorn Canyon and encountered some of the prettiest striped sandstone we've ever seen. But more on that later! First we encountered a lot of mud. The rain we'd had the two days previous had turned this normally dry wash into a bed of wet and very slimy clay. Phil and I had a few close calls, but I'm relieved to say that neither of us came to grief. While it would have been funny to look back on, the prospect of ever getting that gunk out of our truck seats was enough to make us tread very cautiously up that stream bed.

Some of the mud looked like moon craters.  

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GIANT GOATS ON THE MOON! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!
     

Where Finn goes... 

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Sputnik follows. 

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But Sputnik doesn't usually feel the need to do daredevil stunts like this: 
   

Cuzco doesn't do daredevil stunts either. He doesn't need to. 

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The first interesting feature we encountered was this row of giant dome-like rocks, the first of which had a tiny hoodoo on the very top. I wanted to climb up to it and even worked out an ascent plan, but when I contemplated a rope-less descent I decided that discretion is the better part of valor. 

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Selfie time!!

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