Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah

We have often camped in this magnificent part of Utah; this time, instead, we stayed at a lovely B&B, the "Kiva Kottage" midway between the villages of Boulder and Escalante. We enjoyed a couple of hours watching the sun set on the cliffs and valleys around us from our terrace. There are two cottages, appropriately named Sunset (ours) and Sunrise. Today, we hiked in perfect weather to a unique falls in this part of the country.

 View from our terrace looking east towards Capitol Reef National Park

 The Kiva Koffeehouse and Sunset Cottage

This and the two shots below we viewed from our terrace as the sun set.

Hike to Lower Calf Creek Falls:

 Janet on the trail as we near the Falls

 Desert Varnish on the cliffs above Calf Creek
What is "desert varnish"? See,  http://minerals.caltech.edu/FILES/VARNISH/

Lower Calf Creek Falls

Escalante to Capitol Reef

We decided not to camp on this trip, so here we are in the bunkhouse of our Evergreen host in Boulder, Utah.




We hiked to the lovely Lower Calf Creek Falls in the desert near Boulder.


along Calf Creek on the way to the Falls:


In Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.


Pioneer graffiti in Capitol Gorge on the way to the "Tanks."


The pioneers who traveled through this canyon used water from large potholes, now called the "Tanks" high above the canyon floor.


Janet on the way to the "Tanks":


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Location:Salt Lake City

Utah-Arizona - a few favorite shots

 (above) Cottonwood Canyon Road, east of Bryce Canyon, Utah

 The Betatakin Ruin, Navajo National Monument, Arizona

 A view of Keet Seel, Navajo National Monument, AZ, a spectacular, well preserved Anasazi ruin and an interesting hike.

 Grinding stones at Keet Seel

 Lower Calf Creek Falls, a nice place to cool off and have a picnic in Escalante country

 Hell's Backbone, an exciting scenic drive in the Escalante region

 Desert Storm in central Utah

The Grand Gallery, Horseshoe Unit, Canyonlands National Park-a fantastic panel of pictographs and petroglyphs said one of the finest examples of "Anasazi" art so far discovered. The hike to this fairly remote location is fun and interesting.