Escalante Canyon Outfitters
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Back in the 1970s, Grant was working as a uranium miner at the far end of the Burr Trail between the Little Rockies & Waterpocket Fold when he first stumbled on the Escalante Canyons & Boulder, Utah. Back then Boulder was a small ranching community of less than 100 people. Grant was 20 when he moved to town and hired on locally. For $10 a day and a place to live he moved sprinkler pipe. A rancher gave him work tending cows in the calving season. He collected seeds in the desert for reclamation & stabilized ruins in Grand Gulch & other places but mainly he explored the Escalante Canyons.
He spent those first 15 years hiking & riding his horse, sometimes with friends, sometimes solo, connecting places & trails up & down the river. Back then the old ranchers who wintered in the desert with their stock told stories of years in the canyons & had wonderfully vague trail descriptions: "where that one green tree leans against the canyon wall, head up between the two red boulders..."
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