McDonald Creek Hike

Before leaving Rabbit Valley, the weather finally turned in our favor and we got out for the one major hike I wanted to do in the area; McDonald Creek, and Moose was able to join us. With the brisk morning air, and a mix of shade and sunlight on the trail, the conditions could not have been better.

The McDonald Creek trail traces the creek down a long canyon to the Colorado River, 2.4 miles from the trailhead. Along the way are numerous pictographs from the native Fremont Indians dating more than 1000 years ago. We did scour the canyon walls when we could, but we found only one instance of the pictographs. Not that it took away from the hike in the slightest. Just hiking down the canyon, with huge walls on both sides, was amazing on its own.

At the end of the trail is the Colorado River with its muddy waters flowing past, from left to right, on the way into Utah, past Moab, into Glen Canyon, and then into Arizona to further expand the Grand Canyon before finally ending up watering the lawn of some idiot living in the desert of the greater Los Angeles area. All that effort to make such a long distance trek, doing so much good along the way, only to be wasted by societies over indulgence on our natural resources. As you can tell, I have some strong emotions about my Colorado River, and it was great to be standing beside it out in the wild.