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05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

What Survives!

The Twisted Trees are lone survivors out here. Do they ever rot, someday maybe. They are fascinating the way they get twisted up from the wind.

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Off To Climb

Those sheer walls in the distance are their destination!

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Seclusion

We found some!!! Seclusion that is. So far my experience in the Canyonlands has been different than I expected. The vastness, the beauty, that's all been inline with what I thought but I was expecting to be off more in the wilderness, away from the people. Even though the park is pretty unknown in the [...]

04 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Confluence

The Historic Point of destination today led us to the Confluence where the Green river from and the Colorado river from Colorado meet in the center of the Canyonlands and join to be the Colorado river which runs through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. This ten mile round trip hike was said to be over flat [...]

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Hoodoos

The majority of the Needles area of the park is covered in rock formations called the Hoodoos, An overview here shows these mushroom looking structures. The needles are condensed in one dense section but the Hoodoos sprawl out to cover the rest of the Needles section of the park.

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Way Out

Now there is a staircase for you!

What Survives!

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
The Twisted Trees are lone survivors out here. Do they ever rot, someday maybe. They are fascinating the way they get twisted up from the wind.

Off To Climb

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
Those sheer walls in the distance are their destination!

The Seclusion

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
We found some!!! Seclusion that is. So far my experience in the Canyonlands has been different than I expected. The vastness, the beauty, that's all been inline with what I thought but I was expecting to be off more in the wilderness, away from the people. Even though the park is pretty unknown in the list of National Parks and it's Covid time and cold so numbers are down there have still been more people than I expected. But today we drove the opposite direction of the park and discovered a whole different world. The rock climbers world. Seemingly secret roads with camping spaces out in the middle of nowhere that they know about. Awesome, awesome, awesome. This is what we are looking for. We watched a couple of them this morning scaling the sheer cliff in front of us. We saw some climbers along the side of the road back in Moab but these guys were going for the big prize.







The Confluence

04 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
The Historic Point of destination today led us to the Confluence where the Green river from and the Colorado river from Colorado meet in the center of the Canyonlands and join to be the Colorado river which runs through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. This ten mile round trip hike was said to be over flat fields but in reality we went way up to the top of a couple canyons and way down to the bottom, a little more strenuous than planned and required more water than we brought. We were both creating cold thirst quenching beverages in our minds the last few miles. The trip was very worth it though.

The Hoodoos

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
The majority of the Needles area of the park is covered in rock formations called the Hoodoos, An overview here shows these mushroom looking structures. The needles are condensed in one dense section but the Hoodoos sprawl out to cover the rest of the Needles section of the park.

The Way Out

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Mary
Now there is a staircase for you!