by Don McGowan | May 30, 2020 | May 2020
Kodachrome Basin is a land of many colors, and textures; and though not large, it is filled with geological treasures. You are welcome to count them, but the state park folks will assure you that there are 67 monolithic stone spires called sedimentary pipes to be...
by Don McGowan | May 23, 2020 | May 2020
One of the most beautiful transition zones I have ever come across in my wanderings is found in Southeastern Utah where the slickrock eastern edge of Cedar Mesa transitions to the wide, flat cottonwood-covered expanse of Comb Wash, before running head on into the...
by Don McGowan | May 16, 2020 | May 2020
Because they are some of the very oldest of their kind on Earth, the Southern Appalachians have had more practice being mountains than just about all of the others. One of the decisions they made a very long time ago was that they would excel in the production of...
by Don McGowan | May 9, 2020 | May 2020
The Paiute word is unkar or an-kar, or aka-ga-ri, which means red, or red creek, or red stone. Between 850 and 1200 A.D. Ancestral Puebloans traveled seasonally between the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the delta where Unkar Creek finds and flows into the mighty...
by Don McGowan | May 2, 2020 | May 2020
A thousand years ago the Fremont People, a culture contemporaneous with the Ancestral Puebloans, lived in what is now Capitol Reef National Park. The amazing redrock of that part of the Colorado Plateau is a land of uplifts and canyons. Water is a scarce commodity....
