Non-Vegas Vegas Weekend Travelog #7
Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 3:15pm
Ah, the last leg. ...Well, almost the last leg of the day's excellent on hike the Owl Canyon Loop. The last leg will be trekking across the wash and back up the butte to the trailhead. This next-to-last leg is the thing the trail is named for: the actual Owl Canyon.
After crossing through the tunnels under an abandoned desert highway we hiked through a narrow wash to another tunnel, this one under the not-abandoned desert highway, then into Owl Canyon.
As we hiked the loop in a counter-clockwise direction the hike through Owl Canyon was easy. It was down. Though Owl Canyon was inherently easier than the other canyon we ascended through as there were no places we had to scramble over rocky ledges.
Watch the video I've stitched together here to see the entrance to the narrows, the narrows, and the erratic path between the layers of sandstone and sediment. It's cool when the canyon is just 3' wide... as well as when it's 10' wide at the top and 50' wide at the bottom.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Sat, 15 Feb 2025, 3:15pm
Ah, the last leg. ...Well, almost the last leg of the day's excellent on hike the Owl Canyon Loop. The last leg will be trekking across the wash and back up the butte to the trailhead. This next-to-last leg is the thing the trail is named for: the actual Owl Canyon.
After crossing through the tunnels under an abandoned desert highway we hiked through a narrow wash to another tunnel, this one under the not-abandoned desert highway, then into Owl Canyon.
As we hiked the loop in a counter-clockwise direction the hike through Owl Canyon was easy. It was down. Though Owl Canyon was inherently easier than the other canyon we ascended through as there were no places we had to scramble over rocky ledges.
Watch the video I've stitched together here to see the entrance to the narrows, the narrows, and the erratic path between the layers of sandstone and sediment. It's cool when the canyon is just 3' wide... as well as when it's 10' wide at the top and 50' wide at the bottom.