| Southwestern Utah — March, 2006
We love hiking and southern Utah is our favorite place to go. I hope these pictures give folks some idea why. |
| Southwestern Utah — March, 2006
We love hiking and southern Utah is our favorite place to go. I hope these pictures give folks some idea why. |
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An incredible formation in southwestern Utah which is so popular, for obvious reasons, that only 10 people a day are allowed to hike there.
You’re making me homesick. Sort of. I used to live in Colorado and we traveled all over the west.
Colorado would be an awesomely lovely place to grow up. We have only been there on vacation once. A few days in RMNP and then we moved down and hiked in the Collegiate Peaks. I could go back.
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A snow squall and lowering clouds ‘pretty up’ the already gorgeous Zion National Park.
Astounding! When is the best time of year to hike southern Utah?
We’ve been there early in the summer and early in the spring. We always enjoy it, but neither of them are the best. Everything we’ve read says late in the spring, after the snow has melted but while the seeps are still flowing, and in the fall, after the monsoon season. If you want to hike the Narrows of the Virgin River, the fall is probably the best.
Thanks!
These kind of shots always make me think of the first person who saw this location.
The native who first set up summer camp here. The explorer, forging ever westward, thinking he`s through the worst, when the shroud of swirling snow lifts to show him, the gauntlet is not yet run. The present visitors who will always remember how they were the first ones to see this place this way.
Beautiful
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A rock face — not the face of the rock but the face in the rock (see Ebay reference in Indiana diary).
I was trying to decide if the the first face was St. Thomas Acquainus or St. Francis Xavier. But I can tell that this one is St. Francis.
I was reminded of Skred and the other characters in the old Saturday Night Live skits.
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The area south of the wave is almost as scenic as the wave and it holds up the sky.
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Andi trudges up a sand dune and as a reward gets pelted with sand.
I always look at the image, then read the commentary then possibly go back to the pic. When I first looked at the image, I though, “who`s the maroon who trudged up there for this shot.”.
My apologies for the thought. Then I read the hilarious comment.
That`s like saying. The portions were quite small, but the food was
lousey.
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According to some info, this colorful examples of the Chine formation can also be seen in the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, but I think I’ve seen it more often in Navajo blankets.
but this one is my favourite.
But don’t tell the others I said that.
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Checkerboard Mesa dressed up in snow and topped with a morning moon.
Gorgeous image! Perhaps I need to go there again.
We always feel like we need to go back to southern UT again.
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Bedding layers of sandstone, occasionally broken up by cactus.
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Buckskin Gulch is the longest narrowest canyon in the world. In some places it’s only 2 feet wide.
It looks like translucent molten glass. It must be hard to leave a place like that when, because of it`s small width, the light must be changing almost second by second.
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The water that moves through the canyon eventually makes cobbles out of boulders.
Stunning!!!!!!!
Breathtaking. Where are we going over spring break? 🙂
Beautiful. There’s nothing finer than Nature at her best. I’m constantly in awe of what can been seen around the globe, but I have to say that I feel very lucky to live in a country where you can see so many different things.
Maybe soon we’ll begin having people in government who appreciate the land we live on as we do.