If you enjoyed reading and learning about White Valley you will also enjoy Side Step Canyon. Both of these canyons/valleys feature similar but, different hoodoos and pinnacles.  Side Step Canyon has more color than White Valley and is a little more difficult to enter and escape from (if you are trying to avoid back tracking,) like I was. Side Step can be approached a couple of different ways. One can walk up the Wash from just above the Big Water Fish hatchery for about five miles. Or one could follow the directions to get to the mouth of White Valley and then cross country hike northeast...

Dark Castle: The deserts of southern Utah are wonderful places and the open solitude is enhanced more come evening time. The stark mountains and valleys take on a mystical feel as the shadows lengthen and the light fades. On a recent trip to the Wahweap Hoodoos near Big Water, Utah I arrived late in the evening. After I set up camp and stretched my legs from a long drive, I noticed off across the open desert floor an intriguing dark rugged shape of an outcrop of black rock in the distance. It almost appeared as the jagged remains of an alien spacecraft in the shadows from the setting...