Bob fords a stream in Coyote Wash.
Josh performs a flying-gap-jump-of-faith in Escalante.
Camping at the Petrified Forest State Park outside of Escalante.
Hiking across the desert to Red Well, where we will begin our four day hike down Coyote Wash in the Escalante Park, Utah.
Bob negotiates his way down a broken embankment to a dry riverbed.
Natural oils slick across leaves in the COyote Wash. The natural oil seeping out of the ground and carried into the water was really amazing and weird. I took a lot of photos of the oil…..it was just so beautiful.
Trip leader Jon Totten hikes across an oil slick/water trickle in Coyote Wash.
A shaft of light from a crack in the wall.
A scraggly tree…I think it’s dead. My polarizer made the sky almost black.
James attempts a gap jump at sunset at our second campsite.
Exploratory sunset hike after setting up camp at our second camp site.
‘Moqui Marbles’ which emerge from the sandstone over the course of millions of years. Sometimes when the wind blows a marble will break free and clatter down a cliffside. Eerie.
30 second exposure time!
Tent with shooting star over it.
Tent with shooting star over it.
OK this is weird…. we were light painting one night at camp, trying all sorts of things with various LED lights, and I randomly made this kind of horned person standing in the desert…..
…the weird part is…the next day we hiked farther to some Moqui cave paintings, not more than a 100 yards from the previous night’s light painting, and behold….paintings of horned people. Buffalo people? Devil people? Warriors? Any way you slice it, the light paintings and the cave paintings were almost identical. Uncanny.
Bob and Eloy pass under a natural bridge.
Josh hikes past fallen leaves on the third day of the hike.
Unloading, drinking and setting up camp.
Cool sunset and arch. Third campsite, and last campsite before reaching the Escalante River confluence.
We sometimes spent up to four hours a night palying Gin Rummy by headlamp. It was really fun, but it made your legs hurt sooooo bad, sitting there on hard ground for such a long long time.
I am sitting in an arch taking photos of my fellow hikers coming around the bend. Wiiiiiiide angle.
More bizzare oil/water slicks on the red rock.
Looking up and out of Peek-a-boo slot canyon, during a seperate day hike after the main camping trip.
James navigates his way through the narrowest slot canyons I have ever experienced.
Yours truly, the coolest photographer on the planet, in front of Stevens Arch at the Escalante Confluence. I want Spiderman in his next movie to swing through the arch over my right shoulder. That would be cool. Or maybe have a dog jump through it going after a frisbee…. the possibilities are endless.
Life will always find a way to persevere even in a dry, difficult climate.
Be tough like grass. (I just made that up but it sounds zen-like)
Thanksgiving dinner in the desert. We ate Turkey kilbasa, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Then, after becoming sufficiently bloated, we played Gin Rummy for about a million hours.
Calvin levitates over some water on the way out of the canyon. During the whole trip, the light was fantastic….I’m coming back next year. Maybe not Escalante, but somewhere else in Utah. A great state.
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So close to me and you didn’t even stop by to say hi. That is fine. When I am at Priest Lake in August, I probably won’t stop and say hi to you either.
You gap jumpers are what keep us park rangers in business.
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Very, very good photography!!
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Those are some incredible photos!
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