After 3 miles, you reach a fence where the doubletrack ends, and you pass through the fence via a hiker's maze, a Vshaped passage that allows people, but not cows, to proceed. At 3.3 miles, you enter Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, indicated by a large wooden sign on the right bank. The wash ahead assumes the character of a classic slickrock gorge, with the canyon walls rising 200 to 300 feet to the rims above. The wash is confined by the bold sandstone walls, in places separated by only 15 feet of space. Nearly every bend, out of about three dozen bends the canyon describes, reveals deep alcoves or undercut, vaulting cliffs, where you will enjoy frequent shade.
Small benches flank the wash ahead, offering a continuum of fine camping areas.
The moist, shady confines of the canyon support a vigorous growth of riparian vegetation, making brief stretches of bushwhacking through the streamside jungle an occasional inconvenience. Harris Wash. There are good campsites near the mouth of the side canyon and on the bench north of the wash. After passing a third side canyon at 7.4 miles, the gorge grows deeper and even more confined as you follow the meanders back and forth beneath dramatic desertvarnished cliffs. Wide wooded benches offer more fine camping areas for the next 2 miles. As the canyon reaches its greatest depth of about 400 feet at 9.6 miles, its course straightens, and you proceed northeast beneath a bold slickrock tower that thrusts 350 feet skyward above the east wall of the canyon.