Tuckup Canyon River Hike
Tuckup Canyon: Highly Rewarding for the Landscape Photographer Tuckup Canyon is a true adventure that can go on and on depending on your bravery and daring. From the Colorado River, Tuckup Canyon goes back about a mile or less. The canyon walls start out like thin brown shale. Then the sandstone walls are more of a greenish block-like boulders. These boulders litter than canyon floor and present the first obstacle to hiking. Most hikers will find this no big deal. Past these big boulders, a curved labyrinthine canyon runs back another half mile. These canyon walls are knobby but smooth. This is a most beautiful location. My wife enjoyed sitting down here and picking up rocks from different ages all mixed in the ground cover. Brown shale-like sandstone at the lowest levels of Tuckup Canyon Block-like boulders present the next early obstacle Tuckup Canyon: The lower knobby narrows. Morning light ...