I have to say goodbye, for now, to my playground the Grand Staircase. Hopefully I can visit on this trip my other favorite playground of the southwest, Death Valley. Before I go, an ode to this beautiful and forbidding land. When I was 12 years old my family took all of us to Colorado to […]
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Grand Staircase IV: Ode to My Playground 2 comments
Grand Staircase III – Travel Info. Leave a comment
The Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument covers a huge area in southwestern Utah. Zion National Park is directly west while Capitol Reef N.P. and Glen Canyon Recreation Area lie to the east. Lake Powell and the Arizona border skirts it to the south. Two highways, U.S. 89 and Utah 12, encircle all but the east side […]
The Grand Staircase II Leave a comment
The oldest Grand Staircase’s steps, the Chocolate Cliffs, are mostly Permian in age. This is the time before dinosaurs, when reptiles and amphibians ruled the world. But most of the formations in the Staircase were laid down during the Mesozoic Era. They span the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods – more than 130 million years! They […]
The Grand Staircase I Leave a comment
The Grand Staircase is part of the Colorado Plateau and lies mostly in southern Utah but creeps over into northern Arizona as well. It is the defining geographic and geologic feature of the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument. Charles Keyes, one of the early geologists to study this remote region was the first to use the […]
Adventuring Grand Canyon ~ Toroweap 7 comments
The Grand Canyon is on the bucket lists of many of us. Most head to the south rim where all the tourist facilities are. This little story is about the much less popular north rim, which is worth visiting too. But wait, it’s not even about the more popular north rim, where the lodge is […]
Grand Canyon’s North Rim 4 comments
Rural America ~ Desert Southwest Road-trips: Kanab to Ridgway 9 comments
Two for Tuesday: Pet Diversity 4 comments
Diversity is a term that is used a lot these days. I like to think of it not as something we “should” strive for but something that is here and that we should enjoy and make the most of. And that goes for every aspect of our lives, including our pets. It’s been a while […]
Friday Foto Talk: Photography in National Parks, Part III 6 comments
This is a follow-up to the recent series on photography in national parks. For these mini-series, they just seem to naturally make up the nice round number of three parts. Closures & Budget In one of those posts I listed some of my likes and dislikes on shooting in national parks. Here is one more […]
Visiting Zion National Park – Part IV 6 comments
Happy New Year! Friday Foto Talk will return next week. Let’s continue the travel series on Zion National Park in Utah. Zion is the 7th most popular national park in the U.S. More than 3 million people visited last year alone! What makes it feel more crowded than a park like Yellowstone (which sees at least a […]
