Michael Whitman

Begin by taking the shuttle to the Zion Lodge, where you can fill up on water for the day of steep hiking and scrambling ahead. Walk as if to the Emerald Pools, but after crossing the bridge immediately take a sharp left. Several hundred feet down the trail you will notice a closed and unmaintained path leading up and to your right. Take this trail and follow it through a steeply eroded section...

To reach the Leprechaun Canyons drive south of Hanksville, UT on highway 95 for 26 miles to the intersection with highway 276. Keep left and drive another 2 miles to a short dirt road on the left (the pin on the map will lead you to this location). Drive up the road and park about 300 feet from the highway where the road dead ends. Start walking up the wash to the north for about half a mile. A...