Backpacking the Grand Gulch

Last week Justin and I went with our friends Jen and Oscar on a five day, 60-mile backpacking trip to the archaeologically astounding Grand Gulch region of southeastern Utah. When Chaco Canyon fell in the late 13th century large portions of the Pueblo people moved into this gulch. I will walk you through some pictures and hope in time I will become better at this blogging thing!
This is Collin's Canyon, it is where our journey began and ended because it is here that we parked our shuttle car and here that we climbed out on the last day.


This is Justin, Oscar and Jen as we started our ascent into the Gulch.
I was quickly suprised by how green and lush most areas of the gulch were. When we tell people we went hiking in the four corners area, this is not what they imagine!