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Ticaboo & Lulu's Day Out LbNA #11958

Owner:Kat
Plant date:Nov 1, 2004
Location:
City:Moab
County:Grand
State:Utah
Boxes:2
Found by: terpsechorean girl (2)
Last found:Nov 18, 2012
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFFFF
Last edited:Nov 29, 2018
10/15/08 LuLu has been replaced with a new box and journal!

Difficulty: Easy hiking. Trail can be tricky since it gets washed out regularly, but it's in a canyon so you can't go too wrong. No strollers, my four-year-old loves it here, and it's a doggie paradise.
(update: My four-year-old is now eighteen and away in college!)

About 20 minutes from downtown. Less than 20 minutes hiking to the farthest box.

Clues: My name is Ticaboo, whoo whoo. My name is Lulu, bayooooo. Oh boy, oh boy, we're getting in the jeep. I'm in the front, I'm in the back, front, back, front, back, whoo whoo, bayoooo. Soooo exciting, where we goin'. Ooooo, going through downtown Moab, whoo whoo, got to bark at that dog. Bayoooo, sticking out my head to get the maximum ear flapping. Which way, which way, going past the diner, oooh smell that bacon, slurp. Going past Wells Fargo, going, going,
going past Poplar, and Chip's and farther on past the Rock Shop aaand, oooo it has dinosaur bones and fossils, wouldn't that be fun to chomp. Past Denny's and the waterpark. Over the bridge, ooooo fun brown water in that big river.
Still driving, on and on, still on the Main drag, wow, it turned into a four lane road, and we're in the left lane. Ooooo, there's Arches National Park in front of us, but whooa, we're turning left, to the west, onto another road before we got to Arches.
Don't want to breath here, look at all the radiation signs and no loitering signs on the left, hmmmm, keep drivin',drivin', getting back close to that big river again. Going by the Portal, the Jaycee
Park Rec. site, past all those silly people climbing straight up those cracks in the rocks. What can they be thinking, better bark, whoo whoo, bayooooo. Past petroglyphs,sniff sniff, think I smell another letterbox around this spot! (Update: Moab Man letterbox has been moved and is farther down the road and up another canyon)
Past ooooooo, more dinosaurs, but there are poisonous spiders, keep goin'. Drivin', drivin', drivin', past a trailhead, oooooo, that arch makes me thirsty, and the other arch sounds too formal, keep goin' on and on. On the left is Gold Bar Rec. site, sniff sniff, we're getting real close! Just past Gold Bar is a pullout on the right to turn into. Look for the biiiiig pipe. Whoo whoo, bayoooooo, jeep pulling in, parks, let us out, let us out, now, now, can't wait. Zoommmm! We're freeeee!
Heading to the pipe, fast as can be, whoo whoo, bayooooo. Bark all the way through the big pipe, dark and echoing as we run. Aaand, back into the sunlight, and into the lost world. No people, no civilization, just us and the chipmunks.

Letterbox #1 - Lulu's Microbox
After going through the dark culvert, stand at the edge of the culvert and walk at 350 degrees for about 50-100 yds. until you come to a large boulder.

(NOTE: 09/26/07 This canyon had a HUGE flashflood that completely changed the mouth of the canyon. After you come through the pipe, look up above the pipe to see how high the water line was! Look for a large boulder and a smaller square boulder next to it with lots of carvings in it.

This square rock is Lulu's favorite rock and she can spend all day barking at the chipmunk that hides inside it. Walk to the NE of this rock to another rock with modern day petroglyphs all over it. From the NE side of petro rock, in front of you is a large prickly pear cactus garden. Walk around the cactus toward the rock wall of the canyon. There are 3 slits in the rock in front of you. From about head level to chest level. The right end of the middle slit has the treasured microbox hidden behind some small rocks wedged in the slit.

Letterbox #2 - Ticaboo's Day Out
After stamping in at Lulu, continue up the canyon. Here comes Ticaboo! Whoo whoo, follow me, follow me, faster faster, are you comin'? Oh the fun running up the dry creek bed, sometimes there is a trail, sometimes not. Goin' for a few minutes, now looking for a faint trail heading up through the sand to the right. It leads around an impassible pourover ahead. If you get to the pourover, backtrack and find the trail that goes up and around. Biig waterhole down there, so beautiful. On and on again for a few more minutes up the dry creek bed, chasing lizards and chipmunks is optional. Ohh, another pourover ahead, look to the right side again for another little trail leading up and around pourover waterhole. (This trail has been washed out, but it heads up to the right side through sand and will lead about 15 higher than the pourover, or maybe 30 feet above the canyon floor.)
Ok, at the top of the pourover, look down at the waterhole. Very scenic, I love water in the desert. Near the upper end of the waterhole, look for an overhanging rock that sticks out over the water and rock below. It's at about 330 degrees from trail. Go and stand on that rock over the water. Now look at 60 degrees to the triangular shaped boulder about 15 feet away. Go to this rock. At the triangle rock, lean against the rock, back to the rock, and look up. Cozy rock, molded out comfortably for looking to the sky at 300 degrees. See the diving board rock sticking out of this ledgy layer of kayenta sandstone? Scamble up to the diving board and claim your prize hidden under the diving board.

Can be very hot in summer, bring water. This canyon can provide many hours of exploring and leads to Jeep Arch (gold bar arch) after about an hour and a half of uphill hiking (you can e-mail me for better directions). Awesome place. I have also seen this canyon with 15 feet of fast, muddy water running through it, so be careful with storms. As always out here, don't bust the crust!!! Cryptobiotic soil doesn't recover, so stay on rock, trails, or wash bottoms.

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Hike length: 1 mile