Looking down Shell Canyon

Known as Chimney Rock, or Red Pillar

Look closely for the llama in the green grass below the red thumb.

Off of US highway 14, on the outskirts of Shell, Wyoming

You can't really tell, but my shoe is in the water.

Bighorn Mountains

Big Horn National Forest

In 2006, I, like, climbed this or something.

Looking at Copeman's Tomb from a high alpine meadow. The mountains are creating the clouds, they are not blowing in the from the east.

We were cruising up the Shell Canyon in the early morning late in September. Shortly after stopping and admiring the Shell Falls we spotted this bull coming down the hillside heading for the river to get a drink. We trailed him down a side road to the river.

- www.kevin-palmer.com - This is not the main Shell Falls, but a smaller cascade upstream.

Unfortch, there was no time to brew beer.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Cody, Wyoming

Shell Canyon, Big Horn National Forest

Along US Hwy 14 east of Shell, Wyoming

Looking up Shell Creek in the lower portion of the Canyon. By early July the creek was a bit less raging.

Bighorn Scenic Byway in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming

www.byways.org/explore/byways/2053/

Don holding Devil's toenail and belemnite fossils from the Jurassic period - about 167 million years old!

This is the major falls on Shell Creek as it is cutting into pre-cambrian granite. In total Shell Falls is approximately 120 feet tall over a series of ledges.

But it's still a long way down. This is near Dayton, Wyoming.

I'm a sucker for rushing mountain water.

An overhang that has been eroded into the cliffs over Shell Creek

Shell Canyon, Wyoming. One side of the mountain is evergreen forest, and this one is red rock.

Along US Hwy 14 east of Shell, Wyoming

This waterfall plunges 120ft. Photo taken in 2013.

Heading into Wyoming's Shell Canyon.

Along US Hwy 14 east of Shell, Wyoming

Beautiful scenery on the road to Cody, Wyoming

Along US Hwy 14 east of Shell, Wyoming

Like Carla Dallas says, these beautiful flowers look like tiiny little eggplants.

Beautiful scenery on the road to Cody, Wyoming.

Liz, Don Dunkle and others searching for fossils at Dirty Annie's

Big Horn National Forest

Near the start of the trip up the mountain between Sheridan/Dayton and Shell, Wyoming.

This would be the reaction after I trip and appear to be falling into Shell Canyon.

HDR

Sign explaining that Shell Falls is an oasis in the desert

Along US Hwy 14 east of Shell, Wyoming

A few legends have been associated with Lousewort. One is that when cattle eat it they get lice (not true, of course). Another is that it will repel lice (not true according to the source on the internet) and another is that it repels moquitos when you crush the petals and rub them on your skin. (worth trying, ANYTHING to repel mosquitos!)

Shell Canyon, Big Horn National Forest

geology in your face

Across from Shell Creek, on US highway 14, Wyoming

A White Flower

I write the codes

you will decipher

evolution

we all live by

in a sense

innocence

innocence

~~ Faith ReAnne

Shell Creek tumbles down a 120ft. waterfall as it rushes through Shell Canyon in Wyoming.

www.fs.fed.us/r2/cdi/misc/shellfallsbrochure.pdf

The terrain shifts in the mountains between Dayton and Shell, Wyoming.

We stopped at Dirty Annie's to dig for fossils