Showing posts with label Navajo Sandstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navajo Sandstone. Show all posts
Sunday, July 6, 2014

The "Fingers" of Zion: Another Quiet Corner of a Crowded National Park

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My last few posts have been about finding some quiet corners in one of our busier national parks, the one at Zion Canyon. Sometimes one fi...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

A Land of Strange Standing Stones, and an Odd Connection to the Grand Canyon

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There are a lot of strange landscapes on the Colorado Plateau and otherworldly scenes. Some are famous enough as to not surprise first ti...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Tse' bighanilini and Hasdestwazi, "the place where water runs through rocks", and "spiral rock arches."

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Glen Canyon was a beautiful, magical place that was unceremoniously flooded under the waters of Lake Powell (and I'm pretty sure John We...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Out in America's Never Never: A Tale of Two Towers (and a few more)

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Agathla Peak north of Kayenta, Arizona America's Never Never is full of strange and wonderful sights. We had left the forested Blac...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Out in America's Never Never: Erg-onomics of a Desert Park

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That's right, geologists can't help themselves. They like puns. This isn't a discussion of how to sit properly in a national p...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Vagabonding Across the 39th Parallel: Sun and Rock in Arches National Park

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Last summer we set out on a vagabonding journey that roughly followed the 39th Parallel across the western states of Nevada, Utah and Color...
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