THe Sawyer Squeeze should be fine. Some of the canyons have flowing water as well.

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-Travis Briles

Awesome thanks again. If the mountains cooperate and I can drive over, I’ll follow in your footsteps on one route or the other!

I did both on this hike (though i skipped the arches. I’ve been there before ) due to the closed access road. The canyon I went to back in November 2015 is my absolute favorite if I had to choose one. You could park at where the road ends and walk to that canyon. I linked to that trip in this report. I actually would love to do an out and back in that canyon again! I believe the access road is closed until Apil 15th. You have to park not from from Glade Park and do some dirt road walking.

Thanks for the quick reply! Also trying to decide between this and a hike out to rattlesnake arches via pollock. If someone put a gun to your head and made you choose, which was the more enjoyable trek? Eye-candy, solitude, and working hard for it all appeal to me.

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The canyons aren’t that deep, so I never really noticed any large temperature change. Perhaps 5F difference at the most? Of course, this may be off-set if you are camped near the (now) flowing water. I took my 25F quilt and that felt about right.

Really enjoy your trip reports. I am planning on hitting this area this weekend (4/8) since the forecast is looking good so far.

I was wondering if you could share what sort of temp difference to expect sleeping at the bottom of the canyons? Fruita and GC are forecasting some relatively warm nights, so I’m debating which sleeping bag to bring…

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I lived in Fruita many (many!) years ago and would take kinda/sorta day hikes (long story) up around the Monument to a place we called ‘The Sugar Bowl’.