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Having been expecting crowds, I got to the Point at 0615 in order to get a good spot. As it turned out, nobody else appeared for another 30 minutes and then only a handful or so.
I took this shot at somewhere within the first hour or so with the sun still at a relatively low angle, producing a super range of shadows. The view is looking north-west from Yavapai Point with what I think is the Isis Temple just right of centre, In the background is the North Rim on the far side of the canyon.
In the skies above, clouds are gathering and lenticular clouds formed not long afterwards for a short period. There was a stiff wind from the east all day, the precursor to incoming stormy weather that reduced visibility to just less than 50m the following day.
Note the snow on the rock at left. There was 5-10 cm on the South Rim - the North Rim (which sits some 300m higher) was still closed due to much deeper snow.
Scanned from a negative.
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, in the State of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill, overlooking the Verde Valley, it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444.
Jerome is the largest Ghost Town in America!
This was just about the last shot of my morning at Yavapai Point before I headed off to warm up and get some breakfast.
I had begun at 0615 in order to get a good spot ahead of what I thought would be large crowds. As it turned out, nobody else appeared for 30 minutes and then only a handful or so thereafter. This was taken shortly before my departure at 0830.
The view is looking slightly west of due north with Isis Temple in the centre of the shot. The sunlight and shadows give a lot to look at. In the foreground, some 870m below my vantage point, can be seen much of the trail from Havasupai Gardens out across the Tonto Platform to Plateau Point.
In the skies above, lenticular clouds are breaking up. There was a stiff wind from the east all day, the precursor to incoming stormy weather that reduced visibility to less than 50m the following day.
Scanned from a negative.
I spent the weekend chasing storms up at the Grand Canyon. Or should I say the storms were chasing me...lol?? It was a very active monsoon weather pattern during my visit, that's for sure. Here's a big, beautiful lightning bolt I captured from Yavapai Point on the South Rim.
I'm posting two views of the same scene in different light. Which one do you prefer? Here, the snow rim is in direct sun.
The Verde River (Yavapai: Haka'he:la) is a major tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is about 170 miles long and carries a mean flow of 602 cubic feet per second (17.0 m3/s) at its mouth. It is one of the largest perennial streams in Arizona.
The river begins below the dam at Sullivan Lake, fed by Big Chino Wash and Williamson Valley Wash in Yavapai County. The Verde flows freely for 125 miles through private, state, tribal and United States Forest Service lands, specifically the Prescott National Forest, Coconino National Forest and Tonto National Forest, before encountering the first of two dams that make Horseshoe Lake and Bartlett Lake. The cities of Camp Verde, Clarkdale and Cottonwood are the main population centers along the river. The Verde River and the Salt River converge on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The Salt River flows into the Gila River west of Phoenix.
In 1984, the United States Congress designated 40.5 miles of the Verde River as Wild and Scenic through the National Wild and Scenic River program. The Scenic portion begins at Beasley Flats and extends downstream about 19 miles to the northern boundary of the Mazatzal Wilderness. The Wild portion extends from there to the mouth of Red Creek, about 22 miles further downstream.
In 1986, a 6-mile stretch of the river was identified by the state of Arizona as a critical natural resource. This reach of the Verde River and its associated riparian zone, between the town of Clarkdale (near Tuzigoot National Monument) and the Bridgeport State Route 89A Bridge, became part of the Arizona State Parks system. The park, called the Verde River Greenway State Natural Area, encompasses 480 acres (190 ha).[8] Dead Horse Ranch State Park, near Cottonwood, is adjacent to the Greenway.
At Drake, Arizona, its canyon is termed "Hell Canyon", and it is spanned by the Hell Canyon Bridge, a road bridge built in 1923 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
*Algae, Sandy Bottom, & Springs Colored Looking Waters on this day at the Verde River.
Yavapai Point, just east of the Geology Museum, is an excellent place to experience sunset. From this overlook, we watched the first full moon of 2023 rising above the clouds. The January full moon is often called the wolf moon, because some believe wolves howl more frequently during the long nights of winter.
There is no one best place for watching sunrise or sunset along the rim of Grand Canyon; just good places and better places. Find a viewpoint that offers views both east and west.
This year's Sunrise/Sunset + Full Moon Times: go.nps.gov/sunset (5106).
The South Rim received a total of 64 inches (157 cm) during January 2023, and that's an additional 50 inches (127 cm) more snow than in a "normal" January!
Alt txt = 4 people behind railings at a snow-covered scenic overlook on the edge of a vast canyon landscape during a colorful sunset. A blanket of winter clouds, tinted yellow by sunset light, is suspended above the distant horizon.
NPS photo/M. Quinn
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444
(Borrowed from Wikipedia)
Seen at Yavapai Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. After taking a whole series of sunset pictures, this one turned out the best. What colors!! (08-09-30-2346)
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The original post office for Cornville, AZ has been brought back to life and is obviously being well cared for.
Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona
part of the Montezuma Castle National Monument
snippets from Wikipedia: Montezuma Well is a natural limestone sinkhole through which some 1,500,000 US gallons of water emerge each day from an underground spring. The Well measures 386 feet (118 m) in diameter from rim to rim and contains a near-constant volume of spring water even in times of severe drought, amounting to approximately 15,000,000 US gallons. As with Montezuma Castle, the label "Montezuma" is a misnomer: the Aztec emperor Montezuma had no connection to the site or the early indigenous peoples that occupied the area.
Archaeological evidence suggests that humans have lived in the Verde Valley for at least 10,000 years. The ruins of several prehistoric dwellings are scattered in and around the rim of the Well. Their erstwhile inhabitants belonged to several indigenous American cultures that are believed to have occupied the Verde Valley between 700 and 1425 CE, the foremost of which being a cultural group archaeologists have termed the Southern Sinagua.
The Yavapai people consider the Well a deeply sacred site, as they believe it is the place through which they emerged into the world.
Grand Canyon Sunset, Maricopa Point viewed from Yavapai.
At the centre of the picture you can make out 2 or 3 people standing on a ledge and to the right of them a group of turkey vultures riding the thermals.
Full set of photos from this 2010 road trip available at www.thody.net/photos/
The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la, Navajo: Tsékooh Hatsoh, Spanish: Gran Cañón) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai people and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters). Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago.Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered
the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it.The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540
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Cottonwood, AZ (Yavapai County)
Bing’s Burger Station is located in historic Old Town Cottonwood and officially opened its doors in August 2009. Bing’s is located in an early 1940s service station. Originally the service station began its life as a Atlantic Richfield station, but over the years it also served as a Mobil station and a Chevron station. (1)
References (1) Bing's Burgers bingsburgers.com/history.html
Yavapai Point sunset after the snow storm. After the snow storm had cleared it was a beautiful scene with the remnants of the clouds capturing the afternoon light. The contrast of colours with the snow was special to experience.
The Little Daisy Mine and The Douglas Mansion is in Jerome located in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the State of Arizona U.S.A.
The Little Daisy Mine was owned and operated by James S. Douglas. The copper mine operated until 1935 then was bought by Phelps who closed the copper mine in 1938.
The 8700 sq/ft Mansion was built in 1916 by James S. Douglas.
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This week ends with a posting of a picture taken at sunset from Yavapai Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. This time you can see more of the Grand Canyon, the gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world than in my previous two postings.
If you think it’s a bit hazy in the distance please remember how big this canyon is. On the left you can see the plateau of Wotans Throne (2327m – 7633ft) and the top of the Vishnu Temple (2386m – 7829ft) about 13 and 15 km (8 and 9.5 miles) away to the east and the horizon is formed by the Palisades of the Desert at a distance of 27 km (17 miles).
Dedicated to Lens Capricious and his version of the Grand Canyon in which he describes the captivated awe of its grandiosity.
Nice to see in Large and on Black
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Getting used to her new forever home.
She is our newest addition to the Ash family.
She is a 2 year old Siamese mix that we adopted from the Yavapai Humane Society today.
January 16, 2023
Yavapai Point, Sedona, Arizona
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My first upload from my present (2025) trip to the Southwest. I hadn't been able to download photos from my camera the past week but finally resolved the issue.
In looking over descriptions of the best fairly short trails in the area, most everyone proclaimed the Yavapai Trail to be the best. What it has to offer is a grand sweeping view of Oak Creek Canyon. There are plenty of points where there are better views of the individual buttes, but here you see the majority of them in one fell swoop. This photo encompasses but a small swath of the view. The larger butte is Courthouse Butte and the smaller is Bell Rock (from a different vantage point it really resembles a bell).
I hung out here for about an hour--20 minutes or so of photography and the rest just taking it all in.
This is a Pano combining three photos taken with a 35mm lens.
If someone could comment on the color, I'd appreciate it. My computer, sadly, gives everything a tinge of orange. It isn't blatant and many people on viewing my computer don't even notice, but it IS there. Thus, knowing this, I process a photo until satisfied, and then boost the orange and reds a tad. Trouble is, I can't see what it looks like on a screen without the infernal tinge, I'm just guessing. So, does it look alright to you?
Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA.
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The view of the Grand Canyon from Yavapai Point at dawn. The trail from the North Rim can be seen far below in the lower right corner of the image.
Sunrise behind Vishnu Temple;
6 a clock in the morning, view east from Yavapai Point
The Grand Canyon South Rim is the most well known part of the Grand Canyon.
Vishnu Temple
Der schönste Tafelberg (Butte) der Schlucht erinnert in seiner Gestalt verblüffend einen Hindutempel. Der Vishnu Temple ist nach der hinduistischen Gottheit Vishnu benannt worden.
Viele topographische Geländepunkte und auch Gesteinsformationen im Grand Canyon sind nach mythologischen Gottheiten benannt.
(DiaSlide-Scanner; pers Archiv; Minolta Equipment)
1918 Ford Model T 3 Wheeled Kit for Farming photographed at the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town located in Jerome in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the State of Arizona U.S.A.
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