by Don McGowan | Oct 17, 2020 | October 2020
There is a 75-mile-long, north-south trending ridge of uplifted, stratified rock that rises some 18 miles west of Green River, Utah. The strata of this ridge bear a downward cant as they slope from the crest. This anticline is known as the San Rafael Swell. The jagged...
by Don McGowan | Oct 11, 2020 | October 2020
There are almost as many different kinds of hoodoos that inhabit the strange geology gardens of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Utah as there are sandstone strata and caprock; but none are more exotic than the Entrada Sandstone goblins of Goblin Valley State Park....
by Don McGowan | Oct 4, 2020 | October 2020
I remember the very first time I photographed Mesa Arch at sunrise. It’s a bit of a haul to leave Moab long before the sun has awakened and drive 39 miles to the trailhead for the .35-mile hike out to the famous rock strata with a hole underneath that peers...
by Don McGowan | Sep 26, 2020 | September 2020
Some time ago I used an Image from this series to tell the story of a wonderful old Utah juniper tree Bonnie and I found in Arches National Park as we were about to be inundated by an intense thunderstorm moving over Arches from the west. In the first Image, even...
by Don McGowan | Sep 19, 2020 | September 2020
The cooler weather made me do it. I said I was going to wait a while longer before posting an Image about fall color, but the weather turned a bit cooler on Saturday and I couldn’t help myself: it was time. Besides, we need something to draw our attention, if...
by Don McGowan | Sep 12, 2020 | September 2020
The geology east of Capitol Reef National Park is an amazing conglomerate of features. One of the more interesting of these is an elongated valley sandwiched between the uplifts of the Henry Mountains and the Waterpocket Fold and running parallel to the rock layers of...
