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Looking off an overhung promontory toward the expansive wilderness of rock, canyons, and mountains in the Maze District of Canyonlands Moment’s Notice gets a sense of vast with no indication of human development in sight. Note the large chunk of White Rim sandstone that has broken off below the viewpoint, and the Chocolate Drops and Standing Rocks in the distance.
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A view into the heart of The Maze in Canyonlands National Park, a daytime version of the night view I posted last week. The bands of Cedar Mesa sandstone lit by the late afternoon sun form a tangle of ridges demarcating the canyons cut by the transient waters that drain them. To the right are a few pillars formed by residual bands of darker (and softer) Organ Shale, known as the Chocolate Drops. A spring storm is sweeping across the area, leaving snow in the distant Abajo Mountains and clearing skies in canyon country. On the skyline in the center is the faint outline of the Needles, another part of Canyonlands.
Something very very different from me...
This is my first attempt at an action sequence...
We went to the Balmoral Show yesterday and yes, although mostly for the farming industry, they have pretty much everything these days....
We watched this guy on his quad bike for a while as he jumped higher and higher.... my Canon 60d has a continuous shoot mode and even though it was handheld, I got this sequence... just a few tweaks in GIMP and viola! :)
Hope you all enjoy the rest of your Thursday and thank you so so much for some quite hilarious comments on my Cat in the Bluebells pic :) :) :)
Canyonlands is a National Park that exhausts superlatives. Islands in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, the Rivers. We camped for two nights in the Dollhouse, which is in the Maze on the other side of those towers and monuments.
Canyonlands National Park
Southeast Utah
USA
This is one of the views I photographed in Canyonlands National Park, the last park I went to on my trip. This park is adjacent to Dead Horse Point State Park.
From Wikipedia-
Canyonlands National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. It preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. Legislation creating the park was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 12, 1964.
The park is divided into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the combined rivers—the Green and Colorado—which carved two large canyons into the Colorado Plateau. While these areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, each retains its own character. Author Edward Abbey, a frequent visitor, described the Canyonlands as "the most weird, wonderful, magical place on earth—there is nothing else like it anywhere.
A formation near The Wall is distinctive for its delicately balanced spire and it looks all the more precarious in contrast with the solid and mighty Elaterite Butte, on the horizon.
Photo taken in early morning near The Wall, in Land of Standing Rocks in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park.
Precarious and other formations called Standing Rocks are composed of Organ Rock Shale, deposited about 250 million years ago, while Elaterite Butte is, I think, Wingate Sandstone, deposited approximately 50 million years more recently.
The white sandstone caps of the Maze can be seen between Precarious and Elaterite Butte. The Maze is Cedar Mesa Sandstone, the alternating red and white layers immediately beneath Organ Rock Shale.
Canyonlands National Park
Southeast Utah
USA
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This is one of the views I photographed in Canyonlands National Park, the last park I went to on my trip. The day was a little overcast. More images of the parks to come.
From Wikipedia-
Canyonlands National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. It preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. Legislation creating the park was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 12, 1964.
The park is divided into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the combined rivers—the Green and Colorado—which carved two large canyons into the Colorado Plateau. While these areas share a primitive desert atmosphere, each retains its own character. Author Edward Abbey, a frequent visitor, described the Canyonlands as "the most weird, wonderful, magical place on earth—there is nothing else like it anywhere.
Sunrise from Murphy Point located on Island in the Sky, looking towards the Maze, Ekker Butte and the Orange Cliffs, and the southern Peaks of the Henrys (sometimes known as the Little Rockies). The White Rim above the Green River is just starting to glow from the rising sun.
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Aptly named for its chaos of canyons, the Maze is one of the most remote areas of the U.S. Celebrated by writers such as Ed Abbey as a symbol of wilderness, the complex of canyons, buttes, and standing rocks provides isolation far away from human settlements and extractive developments such as grazing and mining. It is one of 3 districts of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, receiving a fraction of the visitation relative to the Needles and Island in the Sky districts.
This view of the afternoon sun cutting across the south fork of Horse Canyon highlights the brown Organ Shale formations known as the Chocolate Drops, though they look more like Hershey bar pieces. Ed Abbey likened them to “tombstones, or altars, or chimney stacks, or stone tablets set on end.” They are capped by White Rim Sandstone which is more resistant to erosion than the softer layers underneath. To the south (right) columns of the same formations occur, known as the Standing Rocks (The Plug and Standing Rock seen here, just left of Lizard Rock). In the distance convective clouds associated with a cold front passing through are dropping snow on the Abajo Mountains and Elk Ridge.
Standing rocks tower hundreds of feet above meandering canyons hundreds of feet deep in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. Bagpipe Butte and Esker Butte are on the horizon. The Chocolate Drops, almost 200 feet tall, are walls of red sandstone capped with white, just right of the middle of the photo. I am not aware that the three formations in the foreground (to the left) are named. The canyon in the foreground gives just a hint of the relief in the bewildering labyrinth of canyons called The Maze.
The Land of Standing Rocks - The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
For some reason the women that I've shown this picture too seem to like it better than the guys that I've shown it to. :)
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Panoramic view of The Maze District of Canyonlands in Utah taken from The Maze Overlook. I'm sure that you can see why it's called The Maze.
The Chocolate Drops can be seen right of center. To the right on the horizon is Standing Rocks.
Stitched by hand from old point and shoot shots from the last trip that I made to The Maze.
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As we hiked from Chesler Park back toward Elephant Hill, the buttes and mesas of Ernie's Country and The Maze caught the sun as it sank below the storm clouds that were rapidly breaking up. The Colorado River runs somewhere between the glowing sandstone and our viewpoint. On our round trip family hike, we saw a grand total of 3 other people. I love this country's National Parks, and I, for one, am glad the federal government owns land and provides the public the opportunity to enjoy it. Places like this enrich the soul, and everyone should have the chance to feel that. Taken from The Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
On an unrelated note, Happy Chinese New Year everyone! My oldest son is a Monkey, bound to be a strong year...
This is The Dollhouse in the Maze District of Canyonlands, National, Park in Utah.
The Dollhouse is one of the most remote places in the United States. It takes a slow and difficult ride over undeveloped extremely rough and sometimes precarious Jeep trails to get to this place. Access is regulated by a permit system and so the amount of people that are there at any particular time is very few. When you are there you truly feel the solitude of the desert.
The Maze is one of my favorite places in the world. I've been there twice.
Pretty cool how even in the deepest parts of the most remote destinations out there, these little cairns are there to guide. Rock on!
Again, from my Thanksgiving backpacking trip through the Maze in Canyonlands, UT. Got the perfect mix of sun and snow on this day as we hiked out of the canyon. Probably the coolest hike I've ever been on!
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Watching Jeff Mitton descend into a side canyon in the Maze reminded me of a young teen on his skateboard “dropping in” down the steep side of a bowl at the skatepark. With all the anticipation and excitement of what might be discovered, Jeff eagerly clambered down the red sandstone, eyes open for the next step, a cairn marking the trail , a ledge with pictographs, a lizard in a crack, or a plant with an unusual life history.
As a university professor and research scientist, Jeff has zealously indulged his curiosity about the natural world, specifically looking into genetic variations within and among populations and the evolutionary forces that influence them. With 44 years of study and mentoring under his hat, Jeff is leaving the confines of the University. But anyone who knows Jeff, knows that he will happily continue the search for knowledge, taking every opportunity to use his sense of humor, wisdom, stories, and photographs to educate the rest of us even if he has to use Natural Selection to do it.
Somewhere in his seventh decade, and still as spry as that teenager, Jeff
will not be dropping out of academic life, but with his incessant curiosity, dropping in on the Earth and its boundless mysteries for years to come. I’m looking forward to learning what he finds out.
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth is home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
The Maze Gardens
Originally the site for Paxton's Great Conservatory, this garden is now home to a large yew maze.
Sandstone's greatest threat, if we're not careful there'll be nothing left for future generations :)
The Land of Standing Rocks, Maze District, Canyonlands National Park, Utah.
I must have spilled coffee on these. :)
I came back with almost 900 pictures from this years trip... many are starting to look the same to me, so I thought that I would mix it up a bit and do some antique textures on a couple just for fun.
I posted this shot a year ago and it hit Explore, and then I pretty much forgot about it.
Yesterday I noticed that it had a bunch of traffic all of a sudden. A ton of people just faved it, not many comments, just visits and faves.
After I did some investigation, I found that it made Flickr Front Page as a "One Year Ago Today" feature.
Have a great week everyone.
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The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. The Maze is one of the most remote places in North America... and it's one of my favorite places. :)
Aerial view of the MacArthur Maze, the freeway interchange just east of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This interchange, which links Interstates 80, 580, and 880, was originally built in the 1930's and was called the "Distribution Structure". It's a major east/west and north/south hub of traffic in the Bay Area.
This interchange has suffered some dramatic mishaps over the years, the most tragic being the collapse of the Cypress Structure and loss of 42 lives during the 1989 Loma Prieta Eathquake.
I avoid this interchange like the plague during rush hour, but find it very convenient to use it when traffic is light.
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EI-MES Sikorsky S-61N Irish Coast Guard / CHC Helicopters (Ireland) @ Ulster Aviation Society Open Day held at The Maze near Lisburn 11/06/2011
A beam of light on the horizon penetrates the blue cloud cover shining a brilliantly warm light on the red rocks of The Dollhouse in The Maze District of Canyonlands.
The Maze is on the west side of the Colorado River with Needles being on the east side. This years trip will be in the Needles District which will provide many more shots similar to this one in places like Salt Canyon, Chesler Park, Ruin Valley, Druid Arch. All accessed by high clearance off road 4x4 trails like Bobby's Hole and Elephant Hill. I'm stoked.
This was taken two years ago. This years photos should be much nicer. I have better gear and two years of learnin' to apply to them. :)
This shot was taken at one of the most remote places in north America. This is the Maze Overlook.
There's a really, really good chance that you have never been here before.. and a really, really good chance that you never will.
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth is home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
The Maze Gardens
Originally the site for Paxton's Great Conservatory, this garden is now home to a large yew maze.
Gardens are located at each end of the maze.
Needles District from the Dollhouse in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park.
I had a great week in the desert. :) This was a part of the view from base camp #2. The weather was awesome. It was warm in the daytime with sun and scattered clouds, very photogenic skies. Then in the evenings we had thunder and lighting. Even though we had such varied and cloudy skies, I was disappointed in the sunrises and sunsets. There weren't any rainbows to speak of either. If I could figure out how to shoot lighting I could have gotten some of those, but none of my tries worked. I'll have to work on that technique a bit more before I go again. :)
It's good to be back, but wouldn't have minded a another week there. :)