by Lui Umano | Nov 21, 2015 | November 2015
They seem when experienced separately to be completely different worlds – the twisted sedimentary red rock of Arches National Park and the volcanic-spawned heights of the La Sal Mountains and Manti-La Sal National Forest – but they are so much more related...
by Lui Umano | Nov 12, 2015 | November 2015
From Dead Horse Point in Dead Horse Point State Park the sinuous path of the Colorado River, as it cuts its way through Canyonlands National Park, is a winding maze of beauty. To be on the Point on a relatively haze-free morning with broken clouds overhead and an...
by Lui Umano | Nov 7, 2015 | November 2015
The Upper Slickrock of Zion National Park is an incredible maze of towering Navajo Sandstone monuments and mesas cut by narrow and sometimes deeply incised watercourses that hold pockets of run-off which nourish the micro-environments of cottonwood, gamble oak,...
by Lui Umano | Oct 29, 2015 | November 2015
It exists as a hidden microcosm to a surrounding world so different that it is almost impossible to see how the two could co-exist. In the midst of an alien desert world of Navajo Sandstone and Red Rock, Lower Calf Creek Falls, at the end of a three-mile walk up Calf...
by Lui Umano | Oct 24, 2015 | October 2015
To the Spanish explorers of the Eighteenth Century along the Old Spanish Trail through what is now Moab, Utah, they were the Sierra La Sal, the Salt Mountains. Twenty-eight million years ago they were igneous intrusions into the less resistant sedimentary rocks of the...
