We walked to the Red Canyon Visitor's Center and got hiking maps. We found one that left from there and made a loop back to our campground. It was a fairly difficult hike because it was our first in some time and because there was a lot of climbing and descending along rocky trails in the full sun. 4.8 miles, 1300 elevation gain.
But mostly the difficulty of the hike was attributable to the altitude. We aren't used to hiking at this altitude. We were huffing and puffing:
Talk about stunning. The photos can't do this place justice.
Hike Report: Golden Wall, Castle Bridge, & Buckhorn Trails in Red Canyon, UT
(Note that the elevation gain changes a bit when one disables the elevation correction. Note also that, as is typical with both my hiking and biking Garmins, elevation gain does not always equal elevation loss, even though we always start and stop in the same exact location; I basically take an average of all of these figures to arrive at what I believe to be the best estimate of elevation gain. I also use date from two different Garmin computer programs, which usually provide slightly different estimates (one Garmin uses Google Maps and the other uses barometric pressure to estimate elevation). It is probably accurate to within 50 feet or so, which is pretty good. Usually it is within a few feet of elevation gains provided on the occasional trail map that reports elevation gains of hikes, which makes us feel confident in what we estimate when this information is not provided by trail maps.)
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