Vivian and I successfully completed the Escalante Route. As planned we began hiking down the Tanner Trail around 10:00 am on March 8, 2015 and completed the route March 12 about 5:30 p m. Here is a schema of our route—
I am currently creating the page for the trip report. In the report I will describe some of the problems we encountered with staying on the route (if you notice in the above schema that we backtracked near Seventyfive Mile Creek canyon, probably a mile or so due to bad information in the National Park Service informational sheet re the Escalante Route. This caused us to be a bit behind schedule on leaving the canyon as we had hoped to be out by midday.
