{"id":12663,"date":"2021-02-23T00:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=12663"},"modified":"2021-02-23T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:50:11","slug":"hayduke-stone-donkey-to-hogeye-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/hayduke-stone-donkey-to-hogeye-shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayduke: Stone Donkey to Hogeye Shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Section 8 the official Hayduke Route<\/strong> <\/a>winds its way through\u00a0Hackberry Canyon<\/a>, <\/strong>down Cottonwood Wash<\/strong>, and then back up the Upper Paria<\/strong><\/a> toward Bryce Canyon National Park.<\/strong>\u00a0This extremely circuitous route isn’t even shown properly on the official Hayduke Guide route overview — maybe because it would look so silly! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 What follows is a shortcut that connects mid-Hackberry to the Paria via Stone Donkey<\/strong> and Hogeye Canyons<\/strong>. This proposed alternate is much shorter and fairly scenic, but it does skip several cool spots along the official route in a trade-off.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0<\/strong>if not thru-hiking and just looking for a 2-3 day backpacking loop, using this route with lower Hackberry and the Paria would make for a great trip. Start at either the\u00a0Hackberry TH<\/strong>\u00a0 (aka\u00a0Yellow Rock<\/strong> TH) or terminus of the Movie Set Road<\/strong>\u00a0on the Paria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s my pros\/cons list for the alternate for those Haydukers considering the option:<\/p>\n

PROS:<\/strong><\/p>\n