If you decide to hike out alone into the backcountry of Zion, make sure you tell someone where you`re going. Failing that, make sure your pocket-knife is sharp enough. Otherwise you could be faced with the same predicament as Aron Ralston, with one arm trapped under a thousand-pound boulder for five days and trying to pluck up the courage to sever it at the elbow, using a knife too blunt even to chop through a steak, let alone a forearm. If all that doesn`t appeal, then do what I did in this part of the world: plonk your tripod in the holes worn by thousands of other photographers, rubbing shoulder with RV drivers hopping briefly out of their vehicles for a few seconds peek over the rim.

Hoodoos and eroding fins,
Bryce Canyon

Moonrise over Bryce Canyon

Hoodoos and eroding fins,
Bryce Canyon

Hoodoos and eroding fins,
Bryce Canyon

Hoodoos and eroding fins,
Bryce Canyon

Tree barely hanging on, Bryce Canyon

Solitary bush, Bryce Canyon rim

Bryce Amphitheatre, Bryce Canyon

Solitary tree, Bryce Canyon rim

Classic hoodoo near the rim
of Bryce Canyon

Bryce Amphitheatre backlit
in late afternoon light

Stone-capped hoodoo, Bryce Canyon

Hoodoos and fins in shade,
Bryce Canyon

Seen from the roadside,
Red Canyon, near Bryce Canyon

Solitary pine in red soil of Bryce Canyon

Cedar Breaks National Monument

Finger Canyons of the Kolob,
Zion National Park

Cedar Breaks National Monument

Volcanic formations in
Snow Canyon State Park

Grosvenor Arch

Volcanic formations in
Snow Canyon State Park

A dummy meets its end

Autumn colours in Zion Canyon

Typical sandstone mesa,
Zion National Park

 

Horse Ranch Mountain at sunset,
Zion National Park

The Watchman, above the north fork of
the Virgin River, Zion National Park

The Three Patriarchs,
Zion National Park

Great White Throne, Zion National Park

Marriage in front of the Kolob Canyons,
Zion National Park

Mount Spry, Zion National Park

Adriana Swarbrick finding it windy
at Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Upper end of Zion Canyon,
seen from the Kolob Terrace Road

ORV fun at
Coral Pink Sand Dunes

ORV fun at
Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park

ORV fun
at Coral Pink Sand Dunes

   
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