HIKING | THE WAVE VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENT ARIZONA

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The Wave
Length: 6.70 mile
Elevation Gain: 1204 feet
Route Type: Out and Back
After one and a half years of constantly putting in a monthly lottery and some daily lottery for this popular but rare to get permitted hike, I finally got in on my birthday month! I was a little worried because this is the hottest month of summer in Arizona and aside from that, it’s when the monsoon season starts! It was all worth the wait. The heat radiating on the sandstone makes me feel like I was inside the oven being baked. There is no trail so make sure to download an offline map and have your phone fully charged. One more thing that helped me is putting my phone on airplane mode to save battery life since I am using my phone to take pictures and videos aside from just using the map. I was already happy seeing the wave and ready to turn back around since it was too hot, but since this permit is hard to get, I decided to see the other attractions around like the Second Wave, the Swirls, Dune, and Melody Arch. I’m so glad I did! I was a happy camper! If there’s a chance that I can do this again, I would start hiking super early in the morning around 4am-5am. I started at 7am and it was already hot!
Content of the Video
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Buckskin Gulch Trailhead
02:40 Crossing the Border of Arizona and Utah
03:30 The Wave
05:30 The Second Wave and Swirl
06:27 Dune
07:28 Melody Arch
08:44 Heading Back
09:18 The Wave
10:14 Closing
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I'm Golden by Gamma Skies
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29 авг 2023

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Комментарии : 16

@johnmckellar2592 11 месяцев назад

Wow.!! Looks like a different planet..Lol. That sand looked exhausting..lol Very cool.!!

@sunkissedmary 11 месяцев назад

It does! It's worth all the wait ❤

@Scrambler85 10 месяцев назад

You were lucky to win the privilege to see something so special. 👍

@sunkissedmary 10 месяцев назад

100% one of the awesome trails I have hiked. So incredible!

@sunkissedmary 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the greetings! ❤❤❤ yes they changed it to digital and you have to be within the vicinity of kanab and some areas of page to enter the daily lottery. Best of luck my friend, i hope you get it!

@bobbafett7407 10 месяцев назад

We did not get a permit for Coyote Buttes North - The Wave 😭😭 But, we were able to get permits for Coyote Buttes South 😎 , super crazy rock formations all over the place and we had the whole place to ourselves 👍 The drive in and out Cottonwood Cove TH could be tricky, as there is tons of deep sand

@Stoic180 10 месяцев назад

Hello Good Folks. A small point of clarification: 1) The world-wide lottery is done online a full 4 months in advance for a given day. So, winners have time to plan their travel. Today, you could enter for January 2024. Up to 48 Permits can be issued this way for a given day. 2) As of Spring 2022, the "local" lottery, where you had to be in the BLM office in Kanab, Utah to enter a lottery for "the next day" was expanded using "geofencing" technology. Since then, you (or I guess your device) can be anywhere between Kanab and Page, Arizona (i.e., the geofence) to try for a Permit. If your name is drawn your Permit is for 2 days later (instead of the very next day) giving you time to plan and drive to the trailhead. Up to 16 Permits for a given day can be issued this way. I understand it's working well. Hope this (too long) note helps. Peace...

@bobbafett7407 11 месяцев назад

Omg!! So happy to see you finally got to visit The Wave!! 🥳🎉 And it looks like you had the place almost to yourself, that’s super cool 😎 I am going to try my luck end of next month at the daily lottery,hopefully I’ll get lucky 🤞 The part that is not cool, is that now you have to apply for the daily lottery 2 days in advance and be in the area to do so 😕 Happy Birthday !! 🎂🎊🎈🥳👍

@ericmorin2057 11 месяцев назад

Congrats on getting a permit and thanks for sharing the hike with us.

@sunkissedmary 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure! I may be lazy at editing sometimes, but I always love to share experiences!

@kyklain86 11 месяцев назад

Patience pays off. When I lived in Page I hiked the Wave when the government went into furlough. Thanks for sharing. Definitely easy to get lost up there, few years ago a couple died cause they got lost.

@sunkissedmary 11 месяцев назад

Was that on covid? I heard the parks were left open. I wish I knew it that time I would have visited many places. I could imagine because there are no trails around. I wonder if they have a permit because they could have warned about the trail and could have gotten a map at Kanab whenever they get their permit.

@kyklain86 11 месяцев назад

@@sunkissedmary might've been like 5 or so years ago when the government shutdown. So many places are too crowded now, like Horseshoe Bend and even Zion National Park.

@sunkissedmary 11 месяцев назад

@@kyklain86 I know, sometimes I get lucky to go to popular places and then there's nobody around. I think we need to promote more on how to take care of these places so people will learn not to trash things. It annoys me whenever I hear a place that closes because it's being trashed.