In the North Escalante Canyons Wilderness Study Area, on a five day backpack lead by Herb Taylor, we started down the Little Death Hollows canyon.  Herb had been warned about a dead cow in the narrows of the canyon, but we decided to go anyway. After hiking for over an hour, we started to descend into the narrows where often you could touch both sides and sometimes had to squeeze through. We in fact saw three dead cows that had gotten trapped in the canyon.  The first two were very desiccated and didn’t smell much.  The third cow was very large and had gotten trapped head first down a small drop off and smelled quite a bit. We climbed onto a low ledge to get around it.  We enjoyed the narrow canyon with walls sometimes as high as fifty feet or more.  At one point, we had to crawl through a hole under boulders on our stomachs, feet first, dragging our packs behind us.  Soon, the canyon opened and we reached the junction with wide Horse Canyon and camped a distance downstream on a sandy bench in a stand of cottonwoods.