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	Escalante River Basin - Wild and Scenic Rivers Utah - Utah Rivers Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern Escalante headwater streams are important migration corridors for the movement of deer and elk from Boulder Mountain to the lower canyons of the Escalante River.
		Escalante Natural Bridge, a 130-foot-high bridge with a span of 100 feet, is located on the south wall of the canyon.
		The Escalante is a microcosm of the sedimentary buildup and subsequent erosion of the ancestral Colorado Rockies.
	www.utahrivers.org /wild_scenic/utah_map/escalante (1189 words)

	Colorado River (U.S.) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
		The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as a fresh water source has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer reaches the sea.
		The lower course of the river, which forms the border between Baja California and Sonora, is essentially a dry stream today due to use of the river as a water source.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Colorado_River_(U.S.) (825 words)

	ESCALANTE CANYONS WILDERNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rising in the lake-dotted meadows of the Aquarius Plateau, the Escalante River descends a vertical mile on its 125-mile journey to Glen Canyon, tumbling through forests of aspen and ponderosa before entering the vast expanse of bare rock that forms the floor of the river basin.
		The North Escalante Canyons are the core of the Escalante wilderness.
		To the west lie the escarpment of the Circle Cliffs, the dissected canyons of the Escalante River drainage, and rising beyond, the Straight Cliffs of the Kaiparowits Plateau.
	www.suwa.org /WATE/escalante.html (8119 words)

	Slot Canyons of the American Southwest - The Paria River, Utah/Arizona
		For a short time in early summer the river may be completely dry, due to lack of rain and/or upstream damming of the flow.
		For over 4 miles, the river valley remains quite wide although with some steep high cliffs and occasional short, narrow side canyons, until, after a long gradual bend westwards, the river turns quite sharply east and the walls close in, soon becoming around 200 feet high.
		With rain threatening and the river already flowing quickly, it is easy to imagine a wall of water surging into view and I was somewhat relieved to reach the safety of the wider canyon.
	www.americansouthwest.net /slot_canyons/paria_river/canyon.html (749 words)

	Utah - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
		Escalante is a small town at the centre of south Utah, surrounded by some of the most rugged yet beautiful country in the state.
		The main access to the upper reaches of the river is by the 50-mile Cottonwood Canyon Road between Kodachrome and US 89; this is a bumpy gravel track that is often impassable after rains.
		One alternative is sightseeing by boat from the lake, as the lower reaches of the Escalante River are flooded.
	www.americansouthwest.net /utah/grand_staircase_escalante/national_monument.html (654 words)

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		The Escalante, last river in the continental U.S. to be named, meanders slowly between towering canyon walls.
		Floaters may take out at the confluence of Coyote Gulch and the Escalante River, but a strenuous hike up a steep sand dune via "Crack-in-the-Wall" to the trailhead at Fortymile Ridge is required; the elevation gain is nearly 900 feet.
		As the canyon nears the Escalante River, high cliff walls soar, streaked with magnificent patterns of desert varnish.
	www.nps.gov /glca/cofe.htm (6387 words)

	ipedia.com: Colorado River (U.S.) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
		The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico, but the heavy use of the river as a fresh water source has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer reaches the sea.
		The lower course of the river in Mexico is essentially a dry stream today due to use of the river as a water source.
	www.ipedia.com /colorado_river__u_s_.html (834 words)

	Sierra: On river time - trip on Escalante River in Utah - Cover Story
		When we reached the Escalante after driving one of the most dramatic routes in America, down Utah Highway 12 from Boulder Mountain--where bare aspens waited patiently for spring and a lone coyote stared at us from a snowfield--we searched for any sign of a river moving between its banks.
		The Escalante is nearly always too shallow for rafts or canoes, and hard-shell river kayaks would have been too small for gear and too clumsy to pack out at the end.
		Huser's warnings were and remain on target: since the Escalante descends nearly 2,000 feet between the Highway 12 bridge and Lake Powell, river runners must either portage and paddle down to and then across the reservoir, or climb out from the depths, lugging their crafts through one of only two negotiable side canyons.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1525/is_n3_v79/ai_15156661 (1534 words)

	Escalante, Utah Travel & Vacation Guide
		Escalante is small ranching town along the Escalante River.
		To the north of town is the high alpine wilderness of the Aquarius Plateau and Boulder Mountain; to the south and east lie rugged red rock desert canyons of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
		The town of Escalante features tidy rows of well kept homes and a sleepy main street with a few cafes, grocery stores, activity outfitters and motels.
	www.go-utah.com /escalante (193 words)

	Hiking in the Escalante River Area \| Utah.com
		Most of the Escalante River itself is slow and shallow, with depths ranging from ankle to knee-deep.
		There are very few developed or maintained hiking trails along the Escalante River and its side canyons; however, a number of intermittent pathways have become established in some areas from continued use over the years.
		Note: That portion of the lower Escalante River canyons which lies within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary may be closed to campfires.
	www.utah.com /hike/escalante_river.htm (1796 words)

	The Escalante River Basin - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Escalante River winds down from its drainages in Hell's Backbone, southeast to Lake Powell, roughly 90 miles all told.
		There are three basic staging areas for hiking the Escalante: the Hell's Backbone Road at the high end of the drainage, The Hole-in-the-Rock Road from the south, and the Burr Trail from the north.
		The Escalante River Basin is managed in part by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.
	www.stmoroky.com /recreate/canyon/escal-1.htm (449 words)

	Utah adventures: Challenges of Death Hollow force wilderness hikers to turn back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Down here with the river lapping at our boots and the ever-present danger of floods, there is no place to pitch our tent and light stoves, to warm up and change into dry clothes.
		The town of Escalante is 290 miles northeast of Las Vegas (275 miles south of Salt Lake City).
		The main route through Death Hollow is a three-to-five day hike, with the terminus ending with a hike through a dry river bed into town itself, or four to six days if you go all the way down to the Escalante River.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05107/488430.stm (1373 words)

	THE BOULDER COUNTRY BUSINESS GUIDE
		The Escalante River is generally considered to be the last major river to be "discovered" in the contiguous United States.
		Thompson named it the Escalante River and the surrounding country the Escalante Basin in honor of the Friar Silvester Valez de Escalante expedition of 1776.
		Although the upper canyons of the Escalante River were formally reserved as the Aquarius National Forest in 1903, formal recognition of the area's recreation and scenic qualities occurred much later in the 1930's.
	www.boulderutah.com /history.html (993 words)

	Floating the Escalante River
		The river is rated at Class 3, with lots of fast moving water, miles of rock navigation, and outstanding scenery.
		The optimal water flow rate for running the Escalante River is 50 CFS or greater.
		This river is rated class III and is very busy with many miles of rocks to negotiate around in fast water.
	escalanteoutfitters.com /river.html (1105 words)

	The Colorado River Basin: Lifeline of the Southwest - DesertUSA
		The Colorado River is born about 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and flows southwest for 1,470 miles to the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico.
		The Colorado River system was the first drainage basin in which the concept of the multipurpose dam was employed.
		In 1922 the Colorado River Compact was concluded by the seven states that constitute its drainage area.
	www.desertusa.com /colorado/coloriv/du_coloriv.html (1139 words)

	Slot Canyons of the American Southwest - Escalante River and its tributaries
		Most of the Escalante River and its countless tributaries are within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and many of the side canyons are best explored by boat as the lower 15 miles of the river are now part of Lake Powell.
		The Escalante region has a number of impressive arches and natural bridges, plus many springs, streams, sheer cliffs and ridges, sand dunes and desert plains but mostly just vast expanses of colourful, eroded, layered rock, the dominant component being the familiar reddish Navajo sandstone.
		The canyons are typically long, deep and relatively wide but still with some lengthy narrow sections and slot-like tributaries; those on the east side of the river are the deepest; they tend to have running water all year, are wild and rarely explored and many are unnamed even on topographical maps.
	www.americansouthwest.net /slot_canyons/escalante_river/index.html (294 words)

	Escalante Canyon Country Hikes
		North of the river is miles and miles of slickrock to explore, and we saw a good piece of it.
		This party left the river at a point opposite the north side climb out, that is, the one that was 20 minutes and three stream crossings east of camp.
		Their way out from the river involved some hard scrambling, and had not been obvious from the top on a previous day.
	jemez.org /escalante.html (1477 words)

	Lower Escalante River \| Utah.com
		From Escalante, UT, take State Route 12 east approximately 15 miles to where the road crosses the river on a bridge, and park.
		Hiking along the Escalante River ranks as one of the best extended backpacking trips, perhaps the best extended backpacking trip in canyon country.
		A group of us spent more than a month exploring the entire Escalante River, Upper and Lower, and then came back for two more weeks to see some of the things we missed on the first trip.
	www.utah.com /hike/lower_escalante.htm (288 words)

	Escalante Canyon - Utah - ImageEvent
		Most of the hikers coming up the wash told us the Escalante was too high for fording but we ended our day with a nerve wracking ford of almost crotch deep Escalante to our best camp of the trip a little down stream of the mouth of Harris Wash.
		This was a long day along the Escalante with an extended break at Choprock Canyon where we did some exploration and inspection of a petroglyph panel near the mouth of the canyon.
		Leaving the Escalante River behind we head up 25 Mile Wash hoping that our river crossing days were over.
	imageevent.com /cascade_bill/2003backpackingtrips/escalantecanyonutah (540 words)

	ECO - Wilderness Camping on the Escalante River
		The summer is a wonderful time for the shaded gorges of Boulder Mountain tributaries and the Navajo narrows of the Escalante.
		The 3 mile hike to camp ends in a view of the areas we will be exploring and a dramatic trail into the Escalante River Canyon.
		The shorter option cuts off the many river goosenecks while the longer route ascends a 1000' slickrock mesa for an incredible and revealing view of the canyonlands.
	www.ecohike.com /navajo.htm (388 words)

	Escalante River, Utah, white water, Calf Creek to Coyote Gulch
		The Calf Creek to Coyote Gulch section of Escalante River in Utah is 70 miles long and is a class I-II stretch of white water according to the American Whitewater Assosciation.
		Escalante River, Calf Creek to Coyote Gulch is a whitewater stretch that is easy to paddle, this part of the river is good for those without a great deal of whitewater experience, if you are an expert paddler you should probably look for a different strectch of whitewater to paddle.
		Sevier River, Utah, Upstream of Panguitch to Salina
	www.riverfacts.com /rivers/13306.html (956 words)

	Boulder Creek - Escalante River Basin - Wild and Scenic Rivers Utah - Utah Rivers Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the largest tributary to the Escalante River, Boulder Creek could well have been named the North Fork of the Escalante River.
		Draining the south slope of Boulder Mountain, both the East and West Forks of Boulder Creek have rare populations of Colorado River cutthroat trout, a sensitive species.
		A healthy population of aquatic invertebrates and native Colorado River cutthroat trout demonstrate the importance of this interaction.
	www.utahrivers.org /wild_scenic/utah_map/escalante/boulder_creek.shtml (194 words)

	Dominguez-Escalante Expedition - DesertUSA
		There are many locations on the Colorado Plateau bearing the name "Escalante" -- the Escalante Ruins of western Colorado, the town of Escalante, Utah, the Escalante River which runs through the town and the newly created Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
		Escalante's plan, which Governor Mendinuetta approved, called for an expedition of 14 men to travel north until they were above the Grand Canyon, unfriendly Indians and the deadly deserts they knew to lie due west, then in as straight a course as possible to head west for California.
		Above their camp, Fathers Escalante and Dominguez found the ancient ruins of a small Indian village, which Escalante noted in his journal -- the first written record of a prehistoric Anasazi site in Colorado.
	www.desertusa.com /mag99/sep/papr/escalante.html (1429 words)

	Escalante River Day Hike
		The Escalante River Gorge from the town of Escalante to the Hwy.12 bridge over the Escalante River is a great canyon to explore for several hours to a couple of days.
		Just over 2 miles in is the Escalante Natural Bridge and 2.5 miles in is a nice arch, both on the south side of the canyon.
		From the parking area the trail continues along the road to a cow maze in the fence and beyond a well marked trail into the canyon.
	www.utahcanyons.com /hiking/escalanteriverday.htm (436 words)

	Grand Staircase Escalante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over the period of 16 - 20 September 2000, we ventured into the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument to explore the canyons and high desert of the newest national monument in the United States.
		Its central river, the Escalante, and its numerous tributaries drain the high mountain areas of the Aquarius Plateau, ultimately merging with the Colorado River deep within Glen Canyon and Lake Powell.
		This canyon, which emptied into the Escalante from the northeast, was unnamed on the topographic maps.
	www.durt.org /photo/esc/esc.html (994 words)

	BACKPACKING: ESCALANTE RIVER CANYON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We were carrying the Rudi Lambrechtse book "Hiking the Escalante", and it gives a reasonable description of many of the trail segments, although it appears to leave out an accurate description of the "boulder section", and perhaps omits a day's travel near Scorpion Gulch (at best it is lightly covered).
		Vandals had shot the cattle (reportedly 19) and burned the shack in February or March, and of course the locals were quick to blame this on "ecoterrorists." I suspect this misdeed was performed by a local rancher, in an attempt to discredit those working for wilderness and wise use of the land.
		The river canyon was narrow in spots and there were some boulders to dodge on the way downriver.
	users.sisna.com /vagabond/ESCALAN1/escalan1.htm (2833 words)

	Coyote Gulch (Glen Canyon National Recreation Area)
		The Escalante River and its tributaries provide many of the most interesting hikes into the desert canyonlands of southern Utah.
		Unfortunately the last 30 miles of the Escalante was flooded by Lake Powell after the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1964, but enough attractions still remain to make the Escalante drainage a very special place for outdoor enthusiasts.
		Coyote Gulch, a side canyon of the lower Escalante, is one of the most popular hikes in the vicinity.
	www.utahtrails.com /Coyote.html (1485 words)

	Escalante River Backpack
		The Escalante River flows through a deep, beautiful canyon and this section is the easiest to hike.
		Sand Creek drains in from the north after 10 miles an increases the flow in the Escalante River.
		Access: Hwy 12; Escalante TH is less than a mile off of Hwy 12, the Hwy 12 Bridge TH is on the hwy.
	www.utahcanyons.com /hiking/escalanteriverbackpack.htm (427 words)

	Steve Weliver's Kayaking Page
		We would camp on the shore of the Escalante arm and use our sea kayaks to get to the various canyons we had decided to see.
		At the last moment, Steve finds a guide through the net who says he can transport us and our yaks to the Escalante arm for $400 round trip (we were still three at this point, but would soon be two).
		We call the guide and thank him for the effort but we'd rather not have our gear confiscated by the park officials, or be stranded miles from no-where for breaking Gestapo-like rules.
	sweliver.home.mchsi.com /escal.html (1072 words)

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