Yesterday, that girl and
I drove twelve hours from Helena, Montana to Tropic, Utah. Tropic is a small town located between Bryce
Canyon National Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Bryce Canyon is
impressive. We stopped for a quick glance
two years ago and vowed then to come back for more exploration. Grand Staircase-Escalante is new to me.
We met my little sister
and her husband. They drove up from Las
Vegas.
Today, we will be
exploring Kodachrome State Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante. The area we intend to explore features a high
plateau and slot canyons carved through solid stone.
Tomorrow, we plan on
hiking down into the hoodoo formations of Bryce Canyon. Some people call these formations
goblins. The hoodoos rise in somewhat precarious
and otherworldly shapes from broken landscapes (badlands). In Bryce Canyon, the orange and red coloring
makes the scene all that more striking.
Some hoodoos there reach elevations of ten stories.
Posted are a few
photographs of hoodoos from our drive through Red Canyon—that last stretch of
road before we reached Tropic.
More to follow!
--Mitchell Hegman
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