BGuthrie Photos: UT -- Canyonlands Natl Park

UT -- Canyonlands Natl Park:

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Description of Pictures: Two separate trips into Canyonlands:

(030528) Island In The Sky (the northern side of the park)
(030529) The Needles (the southern side of the park)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CLAND_030528_066.JPG: This and the next few pictures are taken of and through Mesa Arch
2. CLAND_030528_146.JPG: This picture pretty well corresponds to the map that follows in the next picture. The white outcrop on the right is called Cleopatra's Chair and is about 10 miles away (it's actually located outside of the park). Ekker Butte, the pin-cushion-looking thing toward the left foreground, is about 8-1/2 miles away. The river that you see is the Green River and it's about 3 miles away. As you can see, visibility wasn't all that good.
3. CLAND_030528_184.JPG: You can see tracks on the white rim sandstone. The roads and seismic lines seen here were constructed in the 1950's in a hectic search for uranium and oil, something that would have allowed industrial forces to preclude the creation of the national park. Fifty years ago, the roads are still there because the terrain changes so slowly here. Desert plants see less than ten inches of rain a year here and most of it evaporates very quickly. They'll take decades to recover from the abuses of industry.
4. CLAND_030529_021.JPG: This photo was taken from the Needles Overlook, an area maintained outside of the park by the Bureau of Land Management.
5. CLAND_030529_043.JPG: The jagged edges are what results in the name "the needles" for this section of the park.
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Wikipedia Description: Canyonlands National Park
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Canyonlands National Park, located near Moab, Utah and Arches National Park, was designated as a National Park on September 12, 1964. The park covers 527.5 mi� (1,366 km�).

Canyons carved into the Colorado Plateau by the Colorado River and Green River partition the area into three major districts:

* Island in the Sky to the north
* The Needles to the south-east
* The Maze to the west

In addition to the three major districts there is a detached unit to the north, called the Horseshoe Canyon Unit.

Geography:

Island in the Sky is a broad and level mesa to the north of the park between Colorado and Green river with many overlooks over the White Rim, a sandstone bench 1200 feet (365 m) below the Island, and the rivers which are another 1000 feet (304 m) below the White Rim.

The Needles district is named after the red and white banded rock pinnacles which dominate it but various other forms of naturally sculptured rock like canyons, grabens, potholes, and a number of arches similar to the ones of the nearby Arches National Park can be found as well. Unlike Arches National Park, however, where many arches are accessible by short to moderate hikes or even by car, most of the arches in the Needles district lie in backcountry canyons and take long hikes or four-wheel-drive trips to reach.

This area was once home of the Ancestral Puebloan Indians of which many traces can be found. Although the items and tools they used have been largely taken away by looters, many of their stone and mud dwellings are well-preserved. The Ancestral Puebloans also left traces in the form of petroglyphs, most notably on the so-called Newspaper Rock near the Visitor Center at the entrance of this district.

The Maze district west of the Colorado and Green rivers is the most remote and inaccessible section.

The detached unit to the north, the Horseshoe Canyon unit, contains panels of rock art ...More...
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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