Tag: Wahweap

The Amazing Wahweap Hoodoos

Desert Southwest, Utah

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.

 

The distinctive sandstone rock formations know as the Wahweap Hoodoos stand out in the Southern Utah landscape.

 

The Temple Of Silence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wahweap Hoodoos, A Prehistoric Landscape To Say The Least

Desert Southwest, Utah

Up on Wahweap Creek in Southern Utah are the Wahweap Hoodoos.  They must’ve filmed that scene in 2001, A Space Odyssey here with the ape going bonkers over that monolith suddenly appearing.  I didn’t go ape but I felt like I was in prehistoric times.  A brontosaurus was probably just around the corner.

Storm clouds surround Hurricane Mesa near Zion National Park, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

The unusual rock formation called the Waweap Hoodos make up the landscape at The Grand Staircase Escalante in Southern Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

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Oh, here’s the Ape!

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

 

Sandstone walls and hoodoos carved through erosion make up the landscape at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

A Carpet Of Yellow

Desert Southwest

Springtime rains have spawned a carpet of yellow at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah

Wildflowers come alive during spring at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah
Wildflowers come alive during spring at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah
Spring flowers bloom at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah
Spring flowers bloom at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah
Spring flowers bloom at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah
Spring flowers bloom at Wahweap Creek near Big Water, Utah