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Backpacker Magazine – November 2012
From the Field: BACKPACKER Trail Scouts' Top Western Local Hikes
Whether you want an uncrowded hike in Zion National Park or a five-miler through a gypsum dune field in New Mexico, our scouts have paved the way.
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Chinle Trail to Coalpits, Zion NP, UT
Ray O’Neil, Springdale, UT
“Three million people visit Zion Canyon each year, but only a few thousand see the view from the back side,” O’Neil says. Get the unique perspective as you circle the base of 7,285-foot Mt. Kinesava on this 11-mile loop. Camp at mile four, and watch the sunset illuminate 7,810-foot West Temple. Day two, look for chunks of petrified wood littering the head of Scoggins Wash at the halfway point; continue up Coalpits Wash to Main Street and walk east two easy road miles to your car. Trip ID 716485
“In late November, the cliffs get a frosting of snow on top.”
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