Not that the attached pictures represent the entire town of Hanksville, a tiny town in Utah. But it looks like this community does preserve its “Old Town” quite well…
Old Town of Hanksville
Category: USA
Playing with Ravens
Time flies in this area. It was already around 4 pm, when I arrived at the trail head, which leads to the congruence of the colorado and green river. I planned to go there, to see how the green and reddish water mix or actually does not mix, but creates a two colored river. However,…
First Floor
The way to the concurrence of the colorado river and the green river follows the base of the top layers of rocks. The “First Floor” is quite green and there are even some farmers taking advantage of the large area. In contrast the “Second Floor”, the top of the surrounding mountains, is quite arid and…
Strange Stones
A bit outside of Moab, one can find a short “Dino Track”. Directions to which are available a the local land management agency and basically involve driving into no mans land 15 miles north of Moab on a dirt road. Once there, there should be a short track, where dinosauric bones and petrified wood can…
Little Frog in the Desert
Its not that surprising, that lizards, snakes – yes I have seen some – or beetles can be found in the desert around Moab. There the waves are “frozen” into the sand or the sand even is wrapped in thin layers, like dry sheet of paper. Yet there seems to be an environment for a…
Three Levels of Life
In “Canyonlands National Park” the main attraction are of the canyons. But the main actor in that arid desert actually was and still is water, which has been building all those structures. The entire landscape is more or less divided into three layers as erosion cut away meterial, but was stopped by some intermediate harder…
Wormholes in Canyonland
No, this is not about science fiction or physics. The wormholes I observed are for real and they are preserved in stone. That particular stone actually once was mud at the beach of an ocean or inland lake, where worms left their traces. As the mud got harder, mud cracks developed. All of which was…
Catching Horus
In order to use the morning sunlight, I quickly returned to Arches National Park before heading for the Canyonlands National Park. The feature officially labeled as the “Penguins” right at the entry of the park, kind of reminded me to some stone status I saw on another continent. Horus, the falcon headed egyptian god, is…
Plenty of Arches
Today was fully dedicated to the arches and other formations as the “Arches National Park”. While there are explanations about layers of mud, dunes and salt seas being deposited at various intervals and then eroded again over a period of millions of years – we are talking about around 100 million years even, it is…
Delicate Arch at Sunset
After a long drive to Moab and finding a hotel, I finally managed to get into the Arches National Park. It was already quite late and sunset was immanent. So I decided to only briefly enjoy the extreme bizarre, but very beautiful landscape and mountains and head more or less directly to the “Delicate Arch”,…
