Ted's Hiking World Fisher Towers
Colorado Waterway, Utah

April 26, 2021

I hope that to observe some climbers today, as on my previous two ventures.

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Getting started

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Down we go

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The tallest one is the famous Corkscrew

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Kingfisher Tower on the left

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Base of the Corkscrew

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Pale Evening Primrose

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I like this cliff-side walk

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Cottontail and Echo Towers

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Continuing beyond where I had stopped previously

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Spectacular

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(same type of plant)

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At trail's end

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I finally got to the end of the trail, for the first time!

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Those formations are featured in many movies

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The Colorado Waterway

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The Titan, about 900' high, is the tallest free-standing monolith in the United States

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Paul, Eileen and I would be the only ones to do every hike on this tour

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Paintbrush

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Skyrockets

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The crux of the mission

Note the metal handhold just above the ladder — a very welcome addition was not there three years ago.

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The climbing area is known as Ancient Art

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Some gargoyles and three visible arches

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On the return, it is obligatory to visit the home of what might well be the best western-movie museum to be found anywhere.

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Red Cliffs Lodge

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Heading over to the eating pavilion

We enjoy a great outdoor hamburger and salad bar.  Any potential guilt over that fact that the others have missed out is assuaged upon our return to the house, where they are busily scarfing ribs from a food truck.

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A remarkable collection of old-west memorabilia


§: Had I not finally completed this walk today, I probably never would have done so.

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ADDENDUM

In 2018, my companion Gary won a blue ribbon at the Bishop County Fair for his sequencing of this event on the Corkscrew:

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I also saw another daredevil back in 2014:

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Here's something that nobody gets to see anymore, because it collapsed three months after my first visit:

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The Cobra — some of it 245 million years old, fell in July 2014, probably due at least in part to climber activity

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