walking along
"Seven Steps to Heaven"
Title from a Miles Davis tune and album. Scanned 35mm transparency, from years ago.
Moki steps, made by pre-pebloan cultures throughout the colorado plateau. Could be thousands of years old, as the culture was reduced and dispersed during a period of climatic change about a thousand years ago.
The access is from a campground in the Red Ciiffs Recreation Area outside of St. George, Utah.
My only goal was to find a decent campground between Valley of Fire in Nevada, and the Kolob Canyon section of Zion National Park, as that section was day use only. The kindly campground host directed me to the trail, for an evening walk after setting up camp.
The human origin of the steps stand out strikingly against the natural form and structure of a red rock desert canyon. The pool at the base of the small pour-off, at the center of the photo, is over your head deep even as flow had stopped in early summer, explaining the stairway.
"Seven Steps to Heaven"
Title from a Miles Davis tune and album. Scanned 35mm transparency, from years ago.
Moki steps, made by pre-pebloan cultures throughout the colorado plateau. Could be thousands of years old, as the culture was reduced and dispersed during a period of climatic change about a thousand years ago.
The access is from a campground in the Red Ciiffs Recreation Area outside of St. George, Utah.
My only goal was to find a decent campground between Valley of Fire in Nevada, and the Kolob Canyon section of Zion National Park, as that section was day use only. The kindly campground host directed me to the trail, for an evening walk after setting up camp.
The human origin of the steps stand out strikingly against the natural form and structure of a red rock desert canyon. The pool at the base of the small pour-off, at the center of the photo, is over your head deep even as flow had stopped in early summer, explaining the stairway.