Permit Me, Please…

I have been trying to get a permit to hike the Wave at Coyote Buttes in Utah for a year and a half now.  The hiking is by permit only, and there are only 20 permits issued per day; ten reserved by advanced lottery, and the remaining ten for pre-dawn walk-ups.  I had some freakish accidental “beginners luck”  the first time I tried a year ago last summer.  I got my first choice on my first attempt.   I was gleefully checking flight schedules when I got the “woops!!  Not so fast!” email from Paria Canyon Continue reading