After hiking the PCT in 2016, I wanted more. After saving up vacation for two years, I took to the Hayduke Trail (map) because it had a reputation for what my PCT experience lacked: solitude and challenging decisions. Never been to the Southwest or off trail, this trip was both difficult and inspiring.
- Day 0: Packaging
- Day 1: Flight, Arches
- Day 2: Courthouse Wash
- Day 3: Hurrah Pass, Lockhart Basin
- Day 4: Lockhart Basin, Drain hole, Search for the chocolate layer cake
- Day 5: Finding the chocolate layer cake, Needles Outpost
- Day 6: Canyonlands NP
- Day 7: Butler wash exit, Fable Valley, Dark Canyon Plateau
- Day 8: Young’s Canyon adventures
- Day 9: Dark Canyon, Sundown Trail, Hite
- Day 10: Chimney, Red benches, Fiddler’s Cove, start Dirty Devil
- Day 11: Dirty Devil to Hanksville
- Day 12: Mt Ellen Approach
- Day 13: Mt Ellen Bypass, Tarantula Mesa
- Day 14: Finding the lost inReach, tactical retreat
- Day 15: Finish bailing out to Hanskville, new plans
- Day 16-19: Waiting for weather
- Day 20: 50 Mile Cliffs, Monday Canyon
- Day 21: Roger’s, Navajo, Reese Canyons
- Day 22: Last Chance Creek, Paradise Canyon
- Day 23: Grosvenor Arch, “Cannonville” resupply
- Day 24: slot, Hackberry Canyon
- Day 25: Paria River, Sheep Creek
- Day 26: Getting to Bryce
- Day 27: Resupply in Bryce
- Day 28: Grand View Trail
- Day 29: various washes
- Day 30: Buckskin Gulch, AZT Start
- Day 31: Jacob’s Lake
- Day 32: More AZT
- Day 33: Approaching the Grand Canyon
- Day 34: Nankoweap Trail
- Day 35: Double Hitch, Beamer Trail
- Day 36: Escalante Route
- Day 37: Tonto Trail
- Day 38: South Kaibab Trail to South Rim
- Day 39: Tusayan Resupply
- Day 40: Bright Angel Trail
- Day 41: North Kaibab Trail
- Day 42: Sublime, Solitude points & Teddy’s Cabin
- Day 43: Saddle Canyon, Tapeats Creek
- Day 44: Surprise Valley, Deer Creek, unnamed trail over cliffs to Fishtail Canyon
- Day 45: Kanab Creek to Showebath Falls
- Day 46: Kanab Creek, Hack Canyon
- Day 47: Arizona Strip
- Day 48: Hildale Resupply
- Day 49: Short Creek, East Virgin River approach
- Day 50: Another tactical retreat
- Day 51: Weeping Rock
Isaac Takes A Hike 