This side canyon wishes to join the Colorado River here.  But it hasn't made it.  The occasional flash flood carries water and rock toward where we are standing, carving toward the Colorado trying to form a hanging canyon and waterfall.  Another hundred feet, and the new hanging canyon will exist. . . perhaps in a thousand years or so.  Now, it veers off to our left, swings around in a two mile wishbone shaped path, and enters the Colorado upstream, near a large gravel basin.

Wishbone Canyon would likely be a National Park were it anywhere else.  Here, it isn't even run-of-the-mill Glen Canyon spectacular.

From the nearby slickrock between Wishbone Canyon and the Colorado we can look to the right and see across and down the Colorado. . .