Lick Wash

Monday was PTC so I took the day off to go to Kanab with Paul for a load of stone.  I convinced him that since we would be over there anyway, we should make a day of it and include a hike.  We left early, dropped off the trailer where they were getting the stone ready and then headed for Zion to do East Mesa Trail.  The only problem was that the road was temporarily closed for some work they were doing.  If we waited for them to open it, we wouldn't really have time to do the hike and be back in time to pick up the stone, so we headed for the GSENM Office where they gave us some other ideas for hikes.  We chose Lick Wash.  A lot of the others were still too cold and the roads too muddy.  It turned out to be a nice, if a bit icy in the shady places hike of about 10 miles.  The first .75 of a mile is narrow and carved.  After that it opens up into a wide, but beautiful wash surrounded by tall white cliffs.  We ate lunch in the truck before we left and had a day of it.  Then we picked up the stone and dropped it off in Virgin where the job is and made it home in time for bed.  It was a really nice, get outdoors day!  

Paul doing a lick, a big rock blocking one place, wide and narrow places in the canyon.  

An oddly broken rock, a carved road up to the hoo doo rock, Ponderosa grove, carved rock,
a giant root, Paul in the canyon.

We took a road we never had gone on before to go back to the stone yard
and came across this beautiful waterfall.  We want to go back and play in it next summer!