{"id":10632,"date":"2020-02-17T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=10632"},"modified":"2020-02-17T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:47:44","slug":"hadyuke-fishtail-mesa-saddle-route","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/hadyuke-fishtail-mesa-saddle-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadyuke: Fishtail Mesa Saddle Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;shortcut&#8221; climbs up from the<strong> Surprise Valley<\/strong> area and follows the Esplanade formation over to <strong>Fishtail Mesa<\/strong>. After a climb up and over the saddle, the route from there drops down into remote <strong>Kwagunt Canyon<\/strong> before connecting to <strong>Jumpup Canyon<\/strong>. A short distance through this canyon&#8217;s narrows and one arrives at <strong>Kanab Creek Canyon<\/strong> and is back on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/the-hayduke-trail\/\"><strong>Hayduke Route<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun route, but&#8230; only suggested as a Hayduke alternate if one has already done the official route along the Colorado and up lower Kanab Creek. This route also makes for a good loop with the official route if not doing the entire Hayduke.<\/p>\n<p>See my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/grand-canyon-fishtail-mesa\/\">written trip report<\/a><\/strong> for when I did this as a loop hike in 2008 or watch the video trip report below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EAg9ZoHEqmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;shortcut&#8221; climbs up from the Surprise Valley area and follows the Esplanade formation over to Fishtail Mesa. After a climb up and over the saddle, the route from there drops down into remote Kwagunt Canyon before connecting to Jumpup Canyon. A short distance through this canyon&#8217;s narrows and one\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/hadyuke-fishtail-mesa-saddle-route\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1971,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10632","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3aFWl-2Lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10634,"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10632\/revisions\/10634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}