Bryce CanyonBryce Canyon
Bryce Canon National Park is probably the best of southern Utah, and that's
saying a lot. I will return here. I took immense numbers of photographs --
as many as you see here they are just the best of many rolls.
Bryce is not really a canyon, but a cliff where the softness of the rock
and wind are perfectly tuned to create fields of "hoodos" -- thin columns
of shaped rock scores of feet high. The natives believed they were
people frozen in stone and it's not hard to see that.
There are many places where one can see one hoodo or a few, but at Bryce
they stretch for miles.
At the main viewpoints you can also walk down in among them, though a
slot canyon we wanted to enter was closed. We got to enter a slot canyon
during our return to Lake Powell.
Bryce also has something the photographer craves -- some of the clearest
visibility in the USA. The pictures can stretch for 100 miles.
| Heading on to Capitol Reef, visible in the far distance
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| Famous Hoodo shot
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| We take the trail down from sun et point
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| They stretch on for miles, and the view for much further
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| You do those hoodos that you do so well
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| Down into the canyon. See other hikers going up
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| Poodle Rock, at Rainbow Point
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| Clear air and lots of Hoodos
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| Red Canyon, on the way into Bryce
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| We pose at Yovimpa point, the very south end of Bryce
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| More Red Canyon against blue sky
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| Lovely Hoodo silhouette
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| The Sunrise and Sunset point areas
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| Can't get enough of the views
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Utah/Colorado Tour Index
Nevada | Zion | Grand Canyon North Rim | Lake Powell | Bryce Canyon
Capitol Reef | Arches National Park (Sunset) | Arches in the Morning
Moab and Canyonlands | Colorado - San Juan Mountains | Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Colorado - Monarch Pass