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Don't enter Cottonwood Wash if a storm is approaching, you don't want to be stuck here during a flash flood
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Some boulders are very inconveniently in the way as you get through Cottonwood Wash.
You can try to get over this boulder, but it is far easier to just take off your backpack and squeeze through the gap underneath
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Tilman Giese
Jan 26, 2019 near Loa, UT
“Don't enter Cottonwood Wash if a storm is approaching, you don't want to be stuck here during a flash flood”  

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Don't enter Cottonwood Wash if a storm is approaching, you don't want to be stuck here during a flash flood
You can try to get over this boulder, but it is far easier to just take off your backpack and squeeze through the gap underneath
Getting over the trunk in the middle of this photo and down on the other side can be very challenging.
Cottonwood Wash soon makes you feel very small when you look up its gigantic walls
Some scrambling is required to get over the numerous boulders in the wash
Past some of the harder slot sections, Cottonwood Wash opens up.
Sandstone walls in the narrows of Cottonwood Wash
Some boulders are very inconveniently in the way as you get through Cottonwood Wash.
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Cottonwood Wash

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Loa, UT
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