Facing the first ledge of Entrada Sandstone slickrock that climbs above Bartlett Wash, 18 miles north of Moab.
Up, up, & away.
Vegetation islands beneath small pour-offs dot the slickrock.
Ambling along the top of the first mound of slickrock.
Approaching the next slickrock expanse.
Banded slickrock funnels down from the top ledge that we're on.
In a slickrock saddle, looking for a way into Hidden Canyon.
Rita, Judi, Jock, & Steve with their backs to Hidden Canyon.
Funneling down a broad pour-off feeding into Hidden Canyon.
Where slickrock meets canyon bottom.
Entering Hidden Canyon.
Mike telling Scott that of course we know where we are.
Prim & proper Primrose.
Time to round the herd up after a potty stop.
Marc & Bonnie crossing the "Crack of Doom" to depart from Hidden Canyon (photo: Tom Messenger).
Judi steps lightly across the crack (photo: Tom Messenger).
Susie uses the "hands across the crack" approach (photo: Tom Messenger).
Johnna doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus (photo: Tom Messenger).
Above Hidden Canyon again, after crossing the "Crack of Doom" to get back on slickrock.
Hidden Canyon as it squeezes between two walls of stone.
Scott & Judi walk above solution cavities in the slickrock.
The mandatory "solution cavities" photo taken for Mike.
Undulating waves of slickrock to try to bike.
Wait for a flash flood to slide this way down.
Biking off-road.
This biker found out that going the other way wasn't the safest way off the slickrock.
Bonnie pretending she doesn't know the the two class clowns next to her.
"The happiest girl in the whole USA."
Judi caught in full chew, much to Albey's amusement.
Mike glum that Tom's meal is so much better than his.
Scott & Susie find that eating utensils come in handy.
Penny the Wonder Dog wondering if Rita's had an accident.
Food in hand, the Jockmeister lets his puppies breathe.
One last look at Hidden Canyon & all the slickrock that hems it in.
Undulating waves of petrified sand.
Two miles of slickrock terraces to follow back.
Drainages marked by solution cavities were spaced evenly along the bands of slickrock.
A mini-beach among one of the drainages.
Crossing wide bands of slickrock left plenty of time to socialize with one another.
Beneath the area where we had crossed over to Hidden Canyon.
A stone tower above Bartlett Wash.
Stone cone.
A biker getting ready to swoop across the slickrock.
At the end of the sand causeway connecting two islands of slickrock.
Here's hoping none of the "biscuits" fall on us.
Jock set to follow the white stripes off of the slickrock.
Scott & Susie Steinberg finishing up the hike.
Mike Stringham & Johnna Tipton coming down as gracefully as Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.
Bonnie Crysdale & Judi Simon (plus a well-hidden Rita Rumrill) disembarking.
Ed Brandstetter & Steve Rumrill coming down the final ramp.
The "veiny" entrance to Tusher Tunnel, a photo influenced by the art of Georgia O'Keeffe.
After traveling through a wall of rock for almost 100 yards, Tusher Tunnel opens onto this view.
A faint shield-man petroglyph high on the wall to the left of the tunnel's aperture.
The LaSal Mts. rise up beyond the redrock terrain.
Looking outside the tunnel's door across slickrock ledges & toward a "biscuit" ridge.
Soaking up sunshine outside the south opening of Tusher Tunnel.
Tom's map of the nearly 5-mile route we hiked above Bartlett Wash & in & out of Hidden Canyon.
