Rating:
As with all of our trips, each day hike from base camp offers the opportunity for difficult and demanding routes, however the only required hiking and the basis for the rating is that into and out of base camp. The hike is rated moderate and involves a 6 mile hike to base camp with 800 feet of elevation loss. In order to explore the country and accommodate different interests and abilities we may split into smaller groups on the day hikes.
Every trip is different because of weather, the group and, most importantly, spontaneity. Our trips are about exploring; this land is so vast and intricate that we always make new discoveries. The following is a sample description of what you may expect.

Itinerary: 
Day 1 - We meet at the Burr Trail Grill & Outpost in Boulder, UT at 9 am. We provide a duffel bag for your gear (25 lbs. max.) & drive down to the trail head to start our hike. The drive to the trailhead is about 2 hours long and takes us southeast of Boulder on the spectacular Burr Trail through Long Canyon, the Circle Cliffs and Capitol Reef National Park. The drive is both beautiful and geologically intricate.

After packing your daypack you'll hike the horse trail 6 miles to camp through several forking canyons and along a ledge hundreds of feet above the canyon bottom to arrive at camp near a small stream.

Day 2 - Behind camp is a network of slickrock gorges that appear from a distance to end at a red cliff hundreds of feet high. We'll pass through a crevice and find ourselves at the top of a fin of sandstone that leads down into a valley at the junction of at least 5 canyons. Each canyon has hidden surprises. By the end of the day the drainage takes us back to camp.

Day 3 - We follow a 200 year old Navaho horse trail called the Ticaboo trail; a trough beaten into the ground by many hooves. Cairns, lichen-encrusted and elaborate, strategically mark the way up a straight side canyon onto a ridge. The trail drops into a deep dark red canyon continuing for miles. We leave the ancient route to climb over high domes then drop into another drainage that takes us back to our comfy camp.

Day 4 - A thin high ridge separates our canyon from another mass of canyons all draining into the Colorado River. We cross the ridge to find cottonwood lined washes, hanging gardens and oak groves beneath colossal alcoves. A well used Bighorn Sheep trail takes us back to our canyon well below camp. We follow an old game trail on a high layer of hard rock back to camp.

Day 5 - An ancient route near camp leads through a maze of domes and fins, up and down, back and forth to take us to the top formation that forms a plateau above all the surrounding broken land. Then we descend a more direct route back into the jumble of gorges to our stream.

Day 6 - While the horses take your gear back on the trail, the hiking route is an intricate (yet slightly shorter) route up a forking slickrock canyon system along high ledges and over a summit to a different canyon that we follow back to the switchbacks that lead to the trailhead.We return to Boulder between 6 pm and 7 pm. (dinner not included).