We were scheduled to camp in an area called
Chesler Park the first night. Startgin from Elephant
canyon
it was about a 3 mile hike. These are some of the features
in Elephant canyon. The formations have
different names for
them. The previous formation would have been called a mushroom. When
the rock
layer on top is harder than the rock material
underneath, the erosion can create a mushsroom feature.
Other
features are needles (long skinny towers), arches and bowls. As you
can tell the white layer of rock
was a lot harder than the red
layer. In some places you crumble the red layer with your
fingers.
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As you can see there are
many layers of the white/red rock layers. The white layer on the
bottom, wasn't
entirely the bottom. There are passages, canyons,
etc. all through and around the white
bottom.
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Formations are getting
to be more needle like. There are at least three main areas to
Canyonlands NP.
The are we were in was appropriately called the
Needles
District.
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More features. A
lot of my pictures are just random features. It's so foreign to what
we normally
see.
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The trail went down
between these two
rocks.
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You can see the grooves
on the rocks as the sand blows through and slowly etches them
away..
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The trail signs were
great. It doesn't take long for the sun and sand to take it's course
on things out
here.
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More needles.
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Needles with canyons
below.
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More needles.
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