Overview

Hype:

I'm not 100% certain that camping is allowed here because it's part of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. There are no services, just a dirt road with enough space on the shoulder to pitch a small tent.

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Fees: None

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	50-69
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Links: https://www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/camping.htm

Getting There

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Location

Closest City or Region: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Coordinates: 37.001607, -111.592609

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June 13, 2020 Trip Report

By Jeremy Dye

Trip Members

Jeremy Dye, Tara Dye, Ondylyn Wagner, Shawn Parker, Marci Parker, Becca Bevan,

Story

We weren't sure exactly where to camp, so we drove around a bit before settling on a flat spot next to the road. We camped for two nights. Becca and Ondy slept in a tent while Shawn and Marci slept in the back of their car and Tara and I slept on a mattress in the back of our truck. The first night, we didn't get much sleep because a mouse got into our truck and was scratching around. When Tara woke up, the mouse was a few inches away from her face. She moved, and the mouse jumped into her sleeping bag. Tara jumped up almost to the shell roof and landed on top of me, which startled me awake. All the adrenaline made it hard for us to settle back down and go back to sleep.

The second night was better for Tara but worse for me. We cleared out the bed so we wouldn't have a mouse problem, but around 1:00 in the morning I woke up with food poisoning cramps. I thought I was going to throw up, so I went outside and sat on a camp chair with a beach towel around me to keep warm until about 2:00. I finally convinced myself that it was probably just really bad heartburn, so I crawled back in bed. I slept for 5 minutes at a time until around 6:00 when I couldn't take it any longer. The second I got up and crawled out of the truck, I started throwing up. I've decided that rice has to be the worst food to throw up. It gets stuck in your nasal cavities and is impossible to get out. No fun at all. Tara got all our stuff packed up for our backpacking trip while I curled in a miserable ball in the back seat of the truck. I threw up two more time then Tara drove us all to the Wire Pass trailhead where we started our 3-day backpacking trip through Buckskin Gulch and Paria Canyon.

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