The Wave How To Hike And What To See 

Scored a permit for tomorrow. Thanks for your excellent video.

I finally won a permit for 1/13/20 after years of trying and immediately started looking for The Wave videos and your video is one of the best to highlight other nearby attractions. Thanks.

Very cool. Utah is such a beautiful state. Thanks for sharing!

great!

Best video for hiking The Wave I've ever seen. This is high on my bucket list. Waiting for my daughter to be older. Can not wait to start entering the lottery.

Thank you so much for the video. I'm heading out to the wave in 2 weeks. Luckily won online lottery permits so very excited. I'm glad you put all the coordinates of the destinations these would hopefully make my trek to the wave easier. My wife and baby are joining me and we are very thrill and hope to get some nice pictures like you did.

Excellent video and great tips on how to do a wave trip. Thank you for all the GPS coordinates.

Way to get in during the shutdown! We missed the Alcove our first visit as well as Melody Arch, and the hamburger. Another hiker said there is a second hamburger somewhere. Heading back in May and sure hope to find them. Great video. Love all of your hikes! Many thanks!

Thank you Dana. I can't hike any more and you are showing me places that I wish I could have gotten to in my hiking days, but I pretty much stuck to California. Boy, did I miss a lot!

Won the lottery today and going there tomorrow. Thanks for the video. It’s very helpful

When I was there in August 2019, I stayed at Canyons as well. I found the hotel to be lovely and a nice respite after hiking in the desert all day.

I'm going there next week! Based a whole weeklong Utah trip around it! Can't wait.

Awesome video.

Love my country, it’s awesome! Been to all these places, my mother lives in Kanab

Outstanding, Thank you!

Awesome video. Looks like a fantastic hike. I am in Vancouver Canada & we have fantastic hikes up here. I was planing to go to Red Rock in Nevada. Now it looks like I have this to consider.

That was awesome. Looks like you had a great time.

Nice and thanks for information on everything! I just got lottery and will be there by end of Oct so am planning my trip now that luckily to watch your video. Thanks again!

Great video, Dana! Thanks for sharing this experience. Definitely adding it to my playlist.

The video is great, as always. What I liked especially was the beginning and what you've done with the moon rising and the 'coyote sound' in the background. That must be a fair amount of work. Van Williams

Great tips! I won the lottery ticket on May1. I am looking forward to The Wave trip this coming August!

Thanks for the video Dana. I have had a real interest to see the wave. The info provided is quite helpful.

Thank you so much for your video! It was very helpful and hopefully when we attempt to see the wave we get as lucky as you all! :) Merry Christmas!

Great

Great video. I have a permit for September and your maps will help a lot. Thanks!

Really enh ok yes your video and hoping to see all you did in the near future.

There is so much to see on this trail. I think there are even more things too. I believe there is something a bit closer to where the Wave trail breaks off from the Wire Pass called Double Barrel Arch. We have yet to see the Wave, though we did go to Wire Pass.

I like the howling coyotes in the beginning of the video

Man, what a stroke of luck! Thanks for all the great info.

thanks for sharing this! now to get the permit, lol. edit: 13 attempts failed so far. still trying.

Very Nice Dana - great vid and info! Peace!

Hello Dana! awesome vid! i was just wondering if we need to bring any special gear to The Wave? how much water do you suggest? ty!

Is beautifull places

I won a permit here earlier this year at the visitor center after trying 8 times. I wish I could have my final remains scattered there.

Like your videos s lot & have just received Dana Hollister's 3 novels on the Anasazi Culture. Visited Grand Staircase NM in Sept of 2017 & love the area!

Hey there! I'm a 28 year old in relatively good shape from Arizona and I just found out today I'm going to the wave in July! I've lived in AZ most of my life first in Flagstaff and then Tucson so I'm no stranger to extreme heat and I've grown up hiking down the Grand Canyon several times and hiked pretty much everything there is in the state. However I applied for the lottery as a single person and didn't think I'd get it but surprise surprise... here I am, especially now that I live in London for the last few years and am flying back just for this. I'm really excited but as I'm hiking alone I'm worried about getting lost as I won't be going with a group and I don't have "open navigation" experience. Did you find it easy to get lost in or do you have any advice on staying on the right trail? About how long of a hike to the Wave is it from the parking lot? Also, I know 20 people get to go a day but it looks like your group were the only ones there at that point, did you run into any other people? I'm was hoping to start at sunrise and maybe make my way back with a group of people when they get there and decide to go later on. Thank you!

Excellent! Was this shot with the new GoPro? How did the image stabilization work out? And thanks for the GPS coordinates. Hopefully I'll get to use them some day.

I get to take this hike in July! So excited! If you wouldn't mind answering a couple of questions, I'd really appreciate it. First, is it necessary to have GPS? I have read suggestions to take a GPS. Are the directions and map given by BLM easy to follow? Lastly, I've read various statements of the distance to The Wave. I've read 5 miles and I've also read 3 miles. Do you know which is accurate? Thank you so much for sharing your video and experience! I very much appreciate it!

My kids want to see the Wave and backskin gultch. We plan to go to there at end of may. I need some info about permit. Is it possible to purchase online ?

Do you need to be in the location to participate for the lottery permits or can you do it online? Is there a website that we can check? thanks! beautiful detailed video by the way!

I played 3 days in a row and didn't win last year. I was staying in Page and had to wake up very early and drive for one hour one way just to play.

Is it safe for middle school or high school kids? Is it a lot climbing? How long for you from entrance to get to the first wave? Thank you for sharing, very excellent video and tips!

Is there a chance to even get this permit, or the South Butte if I go in for a 3 day straight try? Seriously thinking about trying the Kanab lottery out.

How is the drive out there? I watched some videos and they say it’s rough! Thoughts?

Can you get a future reservation.. like 8 weeks in advance or is ALL just lottery ? thx enjoy your vids

Is this okay for beginner hikers?

Very interesting. Thank you for the video. How did you know about the boneyard and how did you find the trails. Are they on the map to the wave?

Is there any shuttles to the trail head from town or are you on your own getting there

Hi Dana, thanks for summing that up. Sounds and looks like an awesome hike. When looking at your map or track view I was wondering, what distance did you cover with that one day trip? I´m from Germany and my wife and I still have that "around the US" trip on our list. Especially because of all those unique spots in nature you can find nowhere else. The Wave seems to be another one. Maybe we can take our chance on the permit lottery in case we include Utah and the Wave. Cheers from Germany and as a sub I´m looking forward to our next vlogs. Robert.

Great photos and video. What camera gear are you using?

how long is the hike?

What a hike!! Added to my list! Did you get some fries at the hotel 🙂

Beautiful and well done video , one day I'll be using yours as reference , meantime lets enjoy yours again !!! ... Did you need an AWD or 4x4 ?

Would you recommned the GAIA gps app? Even though the map for this hike is supposed to be pretty helpful, I want to have some back up to keep on track and find our way back. I've heard far too many horror stories of people getting lost.

What camera are you using at 6:53 please, I like the look of that footage and need a new camera ;) Great video. I am coming over from Ireland next week if Thomas Cook airlines doesn't go into administration before I fly. Looking forward now to at least trying for a Wave permit.

Do you have to get permision to go into the wave? Like from a tribe?

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In 2018 the Wave had 168,000 applicants for 7,300 hiking permits. Will this video make that better or worse? How you treat this place on social media will affect it more than what you do while here. Some people just have to brag about the Wave permit that they got to people they don't even know on the internet. The abuse of wildlands on social media is now the greatest threat to the canyon country. There is no shortage of information about this place on the internet. Incredible about what you missed while looking right at it. This Digital Tragedy of the Commons is a menace to the rare and fragile natural historic resources of Arizona, and yet Kanab, Utah sells the Wave permits. Utah BLM now wants to sell 35,000 Wave permits. Will that make it better? Even the Navajos threw the outsiders off of their side of Marble Canyon because social media exploitation drove white entitlement past their breaking point. They are slow to draw a line in the sand, but they're right. They really didn't care much before, but the mob driven by this social media feeding frenzy has gotten stupid just in the last four years.