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Rusty Granite - Tioga Pass, CA

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[Geodude]

What holds back Lake Powell. It sure would be nice if the Colorado River drainage basin received the amount of rain California did...

[WPRESTO]

What holds back Lake Powell. It sure would be nice if the Colorado River drainage basin received the amount of rain California did...

Another typical "grand scenic" of Bryce. Pity that rain, weather in general and other natural phenomena don't behave exactly to the convenience of humans. With all the money we give the Gov't, you'd think they could do something about it.

[Geodude]

Another typical "grand scenic" of Bryce. Pity that rain, weather in general and other natural phenomena don't behave exactly to the convenience of humans. With all the money we give the Gov't, you'd think they could do something about it.

Well, the gov't is overly preoccupied in finding new ways of increasing our healthcare costs...

Nice shot of Bryce Canyon. I had to use a Kodak disposable camera after my p&s bonked out on our journey across Utah. the Kodak seemed to high-cut the exposures.

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[WPRESTO]

Well, the gov't is overly preoccupied in finding new ways of increasing our healthcare costs...

Nice shot of Bryce Canyon. I had to use a Kodak disposable camera after my p&s bonked out on our journey across Utah. the Kodak seemed to high-cut the exposures.

Looks as though the Great Yellow Father did OK with that scenic.

[Geodude]

The hoodoos of Chiracahua National Monument, southeast Arizona. Formed from an immense volcanic eruption about 27 million years ago.

[WPRESTO]

Somewhere I have chromes taken in Chiracahua. We had the parking area at an overlook entirely to ourselves It was overcast, got windy, started to rain, and suddenly we were in a Biblical deluge, unable to see the hood of the car with wipers going full speed, and the car was rocking almost to being frightening by the wind. Memorable place.

[Geodude]

I don’t want to be circumlocutory, but your story is similar to mine when I was there. It was at the time winter storm, Borrega, was transiting the lower southwest and was right overhead, as you can see in the previous photo. The wind was picking up, temps dropping and clouds were lowering in the skies. It was late afternoon and I wanted to get to New Mexico to spend the night.

Crossing over the mountain pass I took a wrong turn, and instead of descending to the other side into New Mexico, I continued to climb up to the summit on what turned into basically a jeep trail. I ended up at a remote/empty campground with bear warning signs posted. Conditions naturally began to worsen as it started sleeting with ice adhering to the car, so I turned around and decided to get back downhill to warmer temps as quickly as possible. Then I noticed my low-tire-pressure warning light was on.

After scanning the tires (none seemed recognizably deflated), I started back down the trail. Fortunately, after a few hundred feet drop in altitude, the sleet turned to light rain with fog. I eventually reached my erroneous intersection, and decided to go back the way I came, past the now-closed ranger station. We (my wife and her 90-year-old mother) finally reached an asphalt highway, and proceeded at maximum speeds of less than 40 mph into Wilcox, where we secured a hotel room for the night.

Next morning I checked the tires (it was the spare), gassed up and proceeded through NM and into TX while the storm still bore down on us with nasty cross winds and occasional rain. We spent two additional nights in El Paso because of ice causing a massive pile-up on I-10 toward Midland. It wasn’t until we reached southern OK that we left the track of the storm.

In summary… I have this urge to return to the Chiracahuas!

[gifthorse]

On the eastern edge of Lahontan reservoir in Nevada. So named because one of the camels used to haul salt to the Comstock lode died there.

[WPRESTO]

Wife & daughter at the edge of a hole collapsed into a lava tube. Some places you can walk into the tubes, but this one would require a rope or ladder and a description warned it was only for experienced cavers. Scan from a chrome.

[Geodude]

Another lava tube with the roof collapsed. In the El Malpais region of New Mexico. Auto settings on the P&S had issues with the sharp contrasts...

[WPRESTO]

This thread has been quiet for a while. The image below is a very famous exposure. Pictures of it are used in many elementary geology text books. I'm sure Geodude has seen it. I posted a slightly different image of it maybe two years back, Hopefully few if any remember. In one of the more euphemistic terms used by geologists, these strata have been "disturbed."

[ramseybuckeye]

Friday I went down to the Hocking Hills. The Blackhand Sandstone weathers into interesting features. These cliffs are along Queer Creek just below Cedar Falls,


Here is Cedar Falls, from one of the small caves around the gorge

[Clarkey]

I've been looking for Niagara escarpment pictures, but this one was also interesting to see. Pictographs, Lake Superior.:

Agawa Bay path by Aaron, on Flickr

Clear, cold water - uncovered bones underwater:

Lake Superior, Clear day by Aaron, on Flickr

[WPRESTO]

Friday I went down to the Hocking Hills. The Blackhand Sandstone weathers into interesting features. These cliffs are along Queer Creek just below Cedar Falls,


Here is Cedar Falls, from one of the small caves around the gorge

Enjoyed both these images, but especially the roots spreading over the rocks in the first image (consequence of being more a naturalist than a geologist that I would pick out something organic in an image dominated by rocks)