| The hike up Soda Gulch to the desert above (and to the Hole in the Rock road) is cool and shaded -- for the first several miles. A very pleasant walk on the hottest of days. |
| A very few of the pools are deep enough to require swimming. (This one didn't.) |
| "The walls are always gracefully curved and finely patterned..." |
| "Small alcoves often contain low waterfalls, but nowhere is our progress stopped," There are no chockstones or jumpups that require climbing. |
| Soda Gulch drains enough territory that it almost always has an active stream after it has dropped into it's rock-bottomed canyon. |
| Soda Gulch is a deep canyon, even for Glen. That helps make the walk up it shady and cool. And very spectacular! |