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...
by Lui Umano | Oct 17, 2015 | October 2015
Dropping off the steep decline of Cedar Mesa, which itself is an amazing piece of geological handiwork, you come upon the narrow valley of Comb Wash appearing as an oasis. However, rising up as the east flank of the wash, the spectacle of Comb Ridge, an 80-mile-long...
by Lui Umano | Oct 9, 2015 | October 2015
Charlie Moore is a photographer, and a good one, too. For a number of years he also owned and operated Overland Canyon Tours in Page, Arizona. He was the only outfitter to offer photography tours of an amazing slot canyon called, simply, Canyon X. For many reasons...
by Lui Umano | Oct 2, 2015 | October 2015
Like a shroud, fog, rolling up from the high valleys of the Davidson River watershed west of Looking Glass Rock, covers the hollows and spur ridges on the eastern shoulder of the Devil’s Courthouse: Courthouse, Chestnut, and Shuck, by name. In brief moments of...
