There is more than one comb wash in Southern Utah-Northern Az. I think best known one is west of Blanding 30 or 50 miles, and it's spectacular. April is probably the best month to be in southeast Utah. There's a Mexican Hat and a Valley of the Gods and a Goosenecks of the San Juan River and a Monument Valley and a Blue Mts in the general vicinity. Oh, the Canyons of the Colorado! Bless that stinkin' desert as Andy Gentry called it when she lived in Moab.
Ed Abbey said something like: Between here and there (this gives me pins and needles) and me and the mountains lies the canyon wilderness, the goddamned desert, land of fin and hoodoo and lovely side canyon and Anasazi grainery, where the eagle floats and where the river runs, deep between the blue-black trenches in the rock. I'd add: and where we can slow down enough to know Earth is filled with magic, with mystery, with arches, and with colored layered rock dubbed with odd names like Entrada Formation, Mancos Shale, and Navajo Sandstone.
There is more than one comb wash in Southern Utah-Northern Az. I think best known one is west of Blanding 30 or 50 miles, and it's spectacular. April is probably the best month to be in southeast Utah. There's a Mexican Hat and a Valley of the Gods and a Goosenecks of the San Juan River and a Monument Valley and a Blue Mts in the general vicinity. Oh, the Canyons of the Colorado! Bless that stinkin' desert as Andy Gentry called it when she lived in Moab.
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DeleteYes, that area is RIFE with delights...and she paints her toes.
I'm not familiar with Andy Gentry. Thanks for the lead; I'm always interested in unknown -- to me -- authors.
Ed Abbey said something like: Between here and there (this gives me pins and needles) and me and the mountains lies the canyon wilderness, the goddamned desert, land of fin and hoodoo and lovely side canyon and Anasazi grainery, where the eagle floats and where the river runs, deep between the blue-black trenches in the rock. I'd add: and where we can slow down enough to know Earth is filled with magic, with mystery, with arches, and with colored layered rock dubbed with odd names like Entrada Formation, Mancos Shale, and Navajo Sandstone.
ReplyDeleteI love the comma after runs.
DeleteI saw Edward and a confrere in Santa Fe a few years before he died. A great man!
It was John Nichols, author of *The Milagro Beanfield War,* that was with Abbey.
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