Trip Map
The Shingle Creek hike is a good early season hike because of the
fact it is a south facing trail and lower altitude which makes the
inevitable snow drifts more manageable. The distance of this hike
was 5.5 miles and can be steep in places. We turned around at East
Shingle Creek Lake. The trail will continue further into the Erickson
Lakes basin.
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Here is a picture of the trail and as you can see if you enlarge
the picture that it is well maintained.
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Closer to beginning of the hike the ground is still saturated with
winter runoff and melt.
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Shingle Creek at its high flow
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Dawg tired.
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Still plenty of snow at East Shingle Creek Lake.
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Sorry this is definately NOT Shingle Creek in the Uintas, it is
a view of the Moab Rim trail looking down toward the Colorado River.
The reason this photo is here is because Strider and I went immediately
down to Moab after the hike and hiked up the Moab Rim trail,
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it all makes perfect sense now:)
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