Bryce Canon National Park is probably the best of southern Utah, and that's
saying a lot. I will return here. I took immense numbers of photographs --
as many as you see here they are just the best of many rolls.
Bryce is not really a canyon, but a cliff where the softness of the rock
and wind are perfectly tuned to create fields of "hoodos" -- thin columns
of shaped rock scores of feet high. The natives believed they were
people frozen in stone and it's not hard to see that.
There are many places where one can see one hoodo or a few, but at Bryce
they stretch for miles.
At the main viewpoints you can also walk down in among them, though a
slot canyon we wanted to enter was closed. We got to enter a slot canyon
during our return to Lake Powell.
Bryce also has something the photographer craves -- some of the clearest
visibility in the USA. The pictures can stretch for 100 miles.
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Red Canyon, on the way into Bryce
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Clear air and lots of Hoodos
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Red Canyon
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More Red Canyon against blue sky
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Famous Hoodo shot
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They stretch on for miles, and the view for much further
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The Sunrise and Sunset point areas
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We pose at Yovimpa point, the very south end of Bryce
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We take the trail down from sunset point
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Poodle Rock, at Rainbow Point
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Down into the canyon. See other hikers going up
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Lovely Hoodo silhouette
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You do those hoodos that you do so well
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Can't get enough of the views
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Heading on to Capitol Reef, visible in the far distance
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