HDT 2022 Day 35, May 5, Thursday
Start along Kanab Creek S13 mile 57.3
End Hack Canyon S13 mile 79.9
Miles walked: 22.6
A short walk continuing along Kanab Creek brings me to Showerbath Spring, dripping under lush vegetation, which I should have stood under to wash up.
Nearby were camped some hikers who live near Hack Canyon.
I met another hiker who came in through the difficult 8 mile cross-country route along the Colorado River that I recently did, BUT he is going back out the same way! I would not look forward to ever doing those eight miles ever again.
A couple of groups of hikers warn me of 100 degree weather in the next few days.
The canyon eventually becomes wider, and huge boulders go away, and water stops running.
I leave Kanab and join Hack Canyon, a wide dry canyon with braided gravel wash, that eventually adds a dirt road.
Some cowboys are moving their herd to a summer location, and ask me if I had seen signs of any. Theirs were the first cattle I had seen in several days. Bison do not count.
The only water source along the 24 mile Hack is known to be radioactive, so I skip it.
Finished audiobook Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott.