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Marble Canyon Rainbows
Read More: Marble Canyon RainbowsRainbows over Marble Canyon during probably the last of the monsoon storms for this year.
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Buttes, Plateaus and Mesas- What’s the Difference?
Read More: Buttes, Plateaus and Mesas- What’s the Difference?The images below shot last week along the Arizona/Utah border show buttes, plateaus and mesas, geologic land forms that permeate America’s Desert Southwest. In general terms, buttes are smaller than mesas and mesas are smaller than plateaus. Buttes were probably once mesas but shrunk in size due to erosion. Plateaus are bigger than both mesas…
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Desert Flora at Sunset
Read More: Desert Flora at SunsetWhile mountain biking this week near Gooseberry Mesa in Southern Utah, I captured some pics over a few evenings of the changing colors of the flora and the sunsets.
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Glen Canyon Moonrise/Sunset
Read More: Glen Canyon Moonrise/SunsetGlen Canyon is that canyon that pretty much disappeared once construction started on the Glen Canyon Dam in 1956. It was finished in 1966. But the Colorado River was backed up into the canyon which later formed Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. There still is a canyon but not nearly as…
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Leftovers From Death Valley
Read More: Leftovers From Death ValleyLeftovers can be good. Like pizza or Chinese food, leftovers may be better than the originals. The Furnace Creek Inn at Death Valley rents for a cool $499 per night. They also charge a $13.44 per day resort fee. Really?
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Death Valley’s Panamint Valley
Read More: Death Valley’s Panamint ValleyAnother large valley at Death Valley National Park is Panamint Valley. It is 65 miles long and up to 10 miles wide and stretches from Panamint Dunes, located inside the park, to the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Center. It is also home to the Barker Ranch, infamous as the temporary home of the Charles…
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The Remote Eureka Valley
Read More: The Remote Eureka ValleyEureka Valley is located within Death Valley National Park and was added to the park when Death Valley became a national park in 1994. Death Valley NP is now the largest national park in the lower 48 states at over 3.3 million acres, 50% more than Yellowstone. Ninety One per cent of the park is…
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It Never Rains In Death Valley
Read More: It Never Rains In Death ValleyWell, almost, it did a little this past Friday. Death Valley only receives 2 inches per year, mostly in the winter. In a lot of locations in this world, you can receive 2 inches of rain in less than an hour. The storm clouds gave Death Valley National Park a look I normally don’t see.…
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Paria Clay Beds
Read More: Paria Clay BedsAlso known in geologic terms as the Chinle Formation located at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. This spot is located at the old Paria Movie Set where The Outlaw Josie Wales was filmed. I half expected Clint Eastwood to come walking out of the landscape. These were shot an hour or two before sunset and…
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One Amazing Little Rainbow
Read More: One Amazing Little RainbowCaught this rainbow dancing along the desert floor near Marble Canyon at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. It played with the monsoonal clouds passing through to provide some abstract images. A time lapse video of this rainbow and surrounding storms will follow soon. These images are available as prints or downloadable files for personal use…