Traveling around the country in our motorhome, we've had the opportunity to complete many top rated, scenic, and just plain pretty awesome hikes. Many people have asked "What area that you have been to that you like the most?" It's always been difficult to answer. They are different. Each is unique and scenic in its own way.
But, at last, Ruthie has the answer; resoundingly, its "THE WAVE". Not such an easy place to get to -- a 6-mile round trip hike from a trail head that is 8 miles down a very rough, dirt road, (40 miles east of Kanab, Utah).
If that wasn't enough to make it difficult to access, the BLM requires that you must have a permit, obtained online 4 months in advance or at the daily lottery. Only 20 people total per day are lucky enough to get a permit, over 50,000 apply annually--from all over the wo
rld. Gail and Dan, our hiking buddies (pictured), were lucky enough to get 3 permits. They called us from the BLM lottery and told us they had one permit...who should go? Being on Ruthie's bucket list for a very long time, there was no question who should join them. How lucky to be in the right place at the right time! 
Upon Ruthie's arrival, her jaw dropped open...and never closed. At each turn, the color palette, the smooth swirled shape of the rock, scoured by sand over hundreds of years, the striations, were simply beyond belief. That this kind of wonder could exist in the desert surrounded by pretty, but common (in Utah) rock formations and colors was impossible to wrap her head around. Not an overused word for this hike.....WOW !
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