Canyonlands

Small boy, big landscape.

Our route into the next canyon, to the left of the large butte on the right - improbably? 

Up the slick rock

Another album cover shot at our lunch spot.  Where's my head?

We had an amazing day in Canyonlands National Park in Utah.  It's a wild and remote park (as those of you who have seen the film '127 Hours' will know) and during our five hour walk we saw only a couple of people. We were glad to be hiking in November, as there isn't much shade, it's a desert and gets very hot in the summer.

We walked through one canyon and then had an exciting ascent on 'slick rock' over to another, with lunch with a view of both.  The scenery is a geologist's dream.  The whole area rests on a thick layer of salt from an evaporated sea, which was covered in sandstone by the next sea which came along. The sandstone is now being weathered by wind and ice into all sorts of weird and wonderful rock shapes.