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Zane Paxton | profile | all galleries >> Southwest Trip Sept. 2003 (12 Galleries) >> Stop #8 -- Canyonlands-Needles District tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Our Trip Route | Stop #1-- Zion National Park | Stop #2 -- Coral Pink Sand Dunes | Stop #3 -- Bryce Canyon | Stop #4 -- Calf Creek, Utah | Stop #5 -- Capitol Reef | Stop #6 -- Arches National Park, Utah | Stop #7 -- Canyonlands (Island in the Sky) | Stop #8 -- Canyonlands-Needles District | Stop #9 -- Monument Valley | Stop #10 -- Lower Antelope Canyon | Stop -- #11a Navajo Gorge Bridge & Vermillion Cliffs | Stop #11 -- Buckskin Gulch, Vermillion Cliffs, Utah | Stop #12 -- The Wave (Vermillion Cliffs Area, Utah)

Stop #8 -- Canyonlands-Needles District

These were taken on an early morning hike before we moved on to see Monument Valley. It was hard to say "enough" and turn around, the ridges just kept going and going... enticing glimpses and teasing promises of even more dramatic suprises that lay just ahead...
Needles-3
Needles-3		 Dry Pools
Dry Pools		 Newspaper Rock
Newspaper Rock		 Needles-1
Needles-1
Needles-2
Needles-2		 Formations-2
Formations-2		 Early Morning
Early Morning		 First Light from the Squaw Flat Campground; a bit of paradise to start the day.
Sunrise at Squaw Flat

First Light from the Squaw Flat Campground; a bit of paradise to start the day.
Newspaper Rock-2
Newspaper Rock-2		 This is where we finally turned around to head back; a poignant moment as the compelling ridges went on forever...
Silent Sentinels

This is where we finally turned around to head back; a poignant moment as the compelling ridges went on forever...

 Morning View
Morning View		 Dry Pools
Dry Pools
Taken in the early morning along the trail.
2 Rocks

Taken in the early morning along the trail.

 Newspaper Rock-2
Newspaper Rock-2

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