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Horseshoe Canyon Hike

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Last spring I went with a couple friends down Bluejohn Canyon and out Horseshoe Canyon , and we passed by the Great Gallery, one of the world's best pictograph panels. I decided then and there to drag my family back one day. This weekend, that day came! We couldn't do the full Bluejohn route, which is many miles and includes rappels, but there's a great down-and-back hike into Horseshoe Canyon, and we set our sights on that. I'd originally hoped to do the hike in late February, thinking the weather would cooperate, but Utah has been cold and wet and miserable since January, so we postponed until mid-April. We invited a family from our neighborhood along - Chad and Lisa and their three kids - and also Bri and Mason, and Friday afternoon hit the road for the Super 8 in Green River. Our first stop was the Wendy's in Price, and when we got there we discovered that Asa had brought a friend along: a ball of ice he'd made out of the hail falling at our house when w...