In my previous post, I talked about hiking in SW Utah and NW AZ. These photos give a sense of the feel within the slot canyons I wrote about.I took most of these photos during a backpacking trip through Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River in October 2003. The one with high canyon wall (to the right) was taken on a hike through the Zion Narrows in 2002.
That is beautiful! I'll have to nose around more here...
ReplyDeleteMichele sent me!
Now it is I who is day dreaming because of a post.
ReplyDeleteWow so beautiful--and shows how small we are compared to nature
ReplyDeleteMurf, we carry a stick when hiking because of Executive Order #1 of our good President Teddy Roosevelt... (that was my attempt to answer humorously in light of your #2 question).
ReplyDeleteActually, in canyons you carry a stick (some people carry two poles) because you are often walking through water and the rocks are very slippery. The stick gives you a third leg--at one point in Buckskin the water was over waist deep, there was another place the mud came up to my knees, the pool in the Zion Narrows (shown) was up to my neck (I held my pack over my head and since I was hiking solo, didn't have anyone to take a photo).
The only picture of me among these is the one at the Paria River sign.
Excellent pistures Sage. I would love to go hiking there. Looks great.
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Wow. The air must be pristine, or I would hope so.
ReplyDeleteNo way jose on Capote Killing a Mockingbird. You'd only have to read the styles of the one and the altogether different other) author(s).
Anyone want to take me hiking? I have bundles of sticks in my yard.
Ginab, it was some one else's theory, not mine. Although I read both Mockingbird and In Cold Blood, they were decades apart (I think I was in the 8th grade when I read To Kill a Mockingbird and I was out of college when I read In Cold Blood). I'm always ready to hike--just have to find more time! If I could figure out a way to make a living as a professional hiker, I'd be a happy man.
ReplyDeleteHi Stranger! Nice to hear from you again and to see you are blogging :)
ReplyDeleteCheck out my sight since you are looking into Zion
http://www.zionnational-park.com
Great photos. I am not much of a hiker, but I would sure like to see those places.
ReplyDeleteAmazing pictures ;)
ReplyDeleteFantastic photographs! Nature is incredible, the riches she hold's for us to see are truly amazing ... if you know where to look for them!!
ReplyDeleteMichele says hi!
Fantastic photographs...Amazing country we live in, isn't it? That was quite a hike! Good For You All!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's simply beautiful. Makes me want to start my travel plans now to see it for myself.
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Breathtaking! I love all these photos...
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