by Lui Umano | Aug 28, 2015 | August 2015
The Burr Trail Road is named for a man who was born aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 1846. His family, moving south from Salt Lake City, established the town of Burrville, Utah in 1876. The man, John Atlantic Burr, became a rancher and opened this trail as a way...
by Lui Umano | Aug 22, 2015 | August 2015
The high desert is beauty in innumerable forms. Just south of Taos you can look westward across the long slash of the Rio Grande River Gorge and into the convergence of that great river with its tributary, Rio Pueblo de Taos. Beyond this, the La Madera Mountains rise...
by Lui Umano | Aug 14, 2015 | August 2015
There is a point at which a 40′ wide strip of land is all that connects the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park with the rest of the plateau. One day Shafer Canyon will erode itself through that strip and Island in the Sky will become an...
by Lui Umano | Aug 8, 2015 | August 2015
Where Wahweap Creek cuts into a layer of 160 million-year-old Entrada Sandstone, overlain by a layer of hundred-million-year-old Dakota Sandstone, the erosion of the exposed wall has created the marvelous white columns of the Wahweap Hoodoos. As the wall has receded,...
by Lui Umano | Jul 30, 2015 | August 2015
Not long ago I decided that I wanted to catch a sunrise from one of my favorite locations on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Black Balsam Mountain Overlook. In spite of really being conscientious about arriving on time, I was delayed in my departure from Asheville; and as I...
