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Show bowl-shaped, evergreen-filled canyon, 7600 feet high and 252 feet above the canyon floor. The trail to the arch begins at Lee Pass at the northwest entrance to Zion Park, designated as the Kolob Canyons (in contrast to the southeast entrance, which is called Zion Canyon). First the trail follows Timber Creek beneath the towering and magnificient Five Fingers of Kolob, then it goes over a juniper-clad toe and drops into the drainage of La Verkin Creek, the major stream in the Kolob section of the park. Another two miles and you are at the mouth of Crystal Canyon, a small side canyon, up which a quarter of a mile looms Kolob Arch. The massive beauty of the Kolob section's escarpments, domes, buttes, knolls, and points is reward enough for any backpacker. Still, it is this junction-where Crystal and La Verkin creeks meet-that lends itself as a location from which to work the surrounding area in a star-pattern. For there is more to the Kolob section than just massive beauty. Much more. THE FALLS AT BEARTRAP CANYON. A narrow canyon (as in narrow) about li miles up La Verkin Creek and another quarter mile up a side (Beartrap) canyon. Beartrap Canyon is pristine and cool. The walking is level and easy. Soon you are swinging from an overhead rope into the fall itself and plunging into the small pool beneath. HOP VALLEY. This valley is one of the really spectacular valleys in a country where another spectacular valley is, well, just another spectacular valley. The burnt orange of the sheer walls that rise a thousand feet on |