From Friday’s 10 mile trek up Wahweap Wash in Southern Utah. We explored this carnival of anomalies and timeless products of erosion and produced these images.
It’s part of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, a landscape that Trump wants to reduce in size by about 50%. Environmental groups such as SUWA, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, https://suwa.org/ are fighting this madness. Can’t imagine oil and gas wells populating this land.
What an amazing landscape! Great photos!
Thanks Katelon!
Gorgeous!
These are amazing! Never heard of them!
They’re in a remote area. A group of us are going to backpack there in April so we can do some night photography
that sounds dreamy!
Wow!
Have you ever seen the Stargate SG-1 TV show?
No, is that what it looks like?
There is an episode #19 from Season 2 called “One False Step”. The team travels to a planet where its inhabitants don’t speak and act very child like. During their visit, they injure some of the unusual plant life. The inhabitants become sick. They finally figure out that the plants & the inhabitants have a symbiotic relationship. The plants normally look like round, white rocks on the ground. When the inhabitants sing to them, they grow tall. This was the only picture I could find:
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Your stone formations reminded me of this episode.
I can see why your photo reminds you of the rock formations I saw. However, I don’t think I had a symbiotic feeling with them. When I touched the rock, it had a soft, bar of soap like feel to them. Maybe organic?
Wow. Interesting.
Oh, how I wanted to go here, but the hike was just a tad too much for us. We did visit the Toadstools, Alstrom Point, and enjoyed photographing the mushroom hoodoos at Stud Horse Point. Love this part of the country. The landscape never ceases to amaze and perplex.
That hike was a slog through sand, mud and rocks
Astounding formations. Such an amazing gift of nature!
Pretty cool place.
That is an amazing nature, I have never heard of this park, well needless to say that your photography is stunning as always. OMG, let’s hope Trump doesn’t get his sticky fingers on this treasure of nature.
Thanks Cornelia. There’s a lot of hidden gems here in the Southwest. Someone from around here told me today that Trump plans to start issuing oil and gas leases near this area.
Michael that’s really horrible.
Hopefully the environmental groups will prevent it.
Wow, this is beautiful! Extraordinary structures!
I’d never heard of this park before. Great photos.
Thanks Jeff
You know that you have just put Utah back on my bucket list!!! We didn’t know this existed, or we would have tried to squeeze in a visit while we were there. Gorgeous and a little unreal!
I’ve lived in Southern Utah for 10 years and still have a bunch of places to visit
Wow! Crazy, gorgeous landscape. I’ve heard of Grand Staircase Escalante but had no idea that it contains these amazing geological treasures. Shameful that this would not be protected.
I think this spot will be protected but not near here. Everything is in litigation
Gorgeous pictures of a place I had never heard of before. You have made me want to visit Utah on one of my travels out west. Thanks
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