Advice for Future Thru Hikers - Hayduke Trail Thru Hike 10

The Hayduke Trail is an 850 mile hike across Utah, involving some very difficult route finding, rock climbing, long water carries upwards of 35 miles, and all while passing through some extremely remote areas! In this video I would like to share some tips and advice for future hikers as this is certainly not the hike to go into blind!

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TIPS & ADVICE for the HAYDUKE TRAIL
- Resources! You want to find as many different resources as possible. Personal trip reports from different sections, so you know what you're getting yourself into as a lot of areas have some very difficult challenges. You want more than a handful of different GPS tracks, as all of them are different and it can be useful to see how routes differed in slight ways from one person to the next. More resources are better as there is nothing official about this trail, and everyone does it in different ways.
- Water! The longest carry that we had between water sources was 35 miles, and twice we had to do that. A handful of times we had to go 25 miles between water, there were a lot of 20 milers, and so on. Multiple different water reports exist from different years that you can find online for free. You can cross reference these to determine the reliability of a potential source. I would not start this trail without at least 8 liters of possible water capacity, and I still think that's on the low end.
- Caching! We cached food and water in four places along our hike. Near Hite Marina, the Burr Trail Switchbacks in Capitol Reef National Park, at Grosvenor Arch, and at the Hack Canyon Reservoir. I do not think caches are necessary at all, as many of these places you have other options. These caches did however make our lives a lot easier out there, and I was very happy to have them. Besides a gallon or two of water, and food... add fun things to your cache. A tasty drink or two, some canned fruit or soup.
- Start Date! I think mid March, to mid April is the best time to begin the Hayduke, with April 1st being the best compromise of everything. If you start too early there will be too much snow, and water levels will be too high in some sections, causing you to skip them. If you start to late, you will be faced with weeks of 100+ degree temperature days, but sections that were previously impossible due to snow melt are now available to you. I think we started April 13th.
- Temperature & Weather! We experienced many days and nights which were well below freezing, and even got snowed on about 6 times over the course of our hike. We also experienced about 10 days where temperatures got as high as 115 degrees towards the end of our hike. I think it's good to be prepared for both of these realities. Maybe treating this trail like two separate hikes could be good. First half having more insulation, and second half having more protection from the sun.
- Gear! Carry some rope to haul your pack up and down canyons, and carry a sun umbrella for the final third of the trail.

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