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Spotlight
Our evening cruise up the Colorado featured Izzy our guide pointing out what looked like faces and animals on the cliffs.
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Colorado Red
We took an evening cruise up the Colorado River from Moab, Utah with Elizabeth and Jeff. Here is one of the red walls showing sunset light.
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Yellow Leaves
The road to Canyonlands National Park included trees turning colors in the valleys below the cliffs.
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Facing West
A rocky pillar looks west toward Canyonlands NP in southeastern Utah,
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Canyon Road
The road out of Canyonlands NP winds below massive rocky cliffs.
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Bears Ears
The monuments that gave their name to the recently created Bears Ears National Monument near Canyonlands NP.
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Needles
Looking toward the Needles section of Canyonlands NP. Easy to see how it got that name.
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Curved Rocks
My wife Elaine caught this shot of me with daughter Elizabeth on an outcropping in Canyonlands National Park.
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The News
The Carters, including our dog Cooper, at Newspaper Rock near Canyonlands NP.
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Newspaper Rock
Driving south of Moab, Utah into Canyonlands National Park, we stopped at the Newspaper Rock petroglyphs. A mix of native and immigrant signs scratched into the dark sheen on a large wall. Can you find the foot with six toes?
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La Sal Mountains
Sunset light on the La Sal range, the second highest in Utah, viewed from Elizabeth and Jeff’s camp in the wilderness.
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Campout Dinner
Daughter Elizabeth and her husband Jeff invited us out to their camping spot in the Beyond the Rocks back country near Moab, Utah. Talk about remote, we had to 4-wheel it for 25 minutes to reach their camp!
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Into the Canyon
Driving across Utah to Moab, we entered the Colorado River canyon for a dramatic drive between gigantic red cliffs.
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Signs
Right next to our campground in Provo, Utah was a storage facility that featured dozens of old automotive and advertising signs.
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Puzzled
We found the store in Orem, Utah that seems to have every puzzle created by Eric Doudle. We bought four to enjoy when the trip is done!
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Reflection
An irrigation canal glows with sunset colors near the farmhouse where we camped just north of the Snake River canyon and Twin Falls.
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Tasty Treat
A small group of county-folk singers performed for us in the Cloverleaf ice cream shop in the old downtown of Twin Falls. Delicious flavors and sweet harmonies!
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Landing
A base jumper aims for a soft landing on the banks of the Snake River after leaping off the bridge over the canyon.
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Over the River
A base jumper guides his parachute over the Snake River after jumping nearly 500 feet off the bridge near Twin Falls, Idaho.
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Parachute
A base jumper’s parachute opens just below the Perrine Bridge over the Snake River canyon.
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Leap of Faith
Unlike Evel Knievel, a group of “base jumpers” were leaping off the bridge with the goal of a soft landing at the bottom of the canyon.
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Evel Knievel
50 years ago this fall, daredevil Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls. He didn’t quite make it, but survived the attempt, as this marker notes.
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Twin Falls Bridge
The Perrine Bridge crosses the Snake River just north of Twin Falls, Idaho. Nearly 500 feet above the river, its truss arch span makes a dramatic connection between the two basalt banks of the canyon.
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Purple Flowers
Look down and you’ll be surprised at the colorful flowers that often go unnoticed under foot.
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Yellow Sunset
View across the Payette River valley on a beautiful fall evening.
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