I arrived just before sunset and the sun god, apparently feeling beneficent, emerged from behind the clouds.
Note reflections in hood. Monsoons!
Settee
Smug Observer (face at middle upper right)
And it goes on and on.
Several reviews mention the smallness. I suppose, relative to the wide-open spaces, it is small. But the comment about being able to blow through it in half an hour was, after being there, ludicrous. It's 33 miles to Vernal. Iffen yer gonna plan on seeing it in 30 minutes, youse might wanna consider turning on yer TV instead. Temps hoverin 'round hunnert-plus degrees mid-day.
Wow! Never heard of the place. Or the settee.
ReplyDeleteThe settee can be found by following the trail that begins 200' behind the Info Board. It's not as obvious as the one nearer the pit toilets. I found it by accident after just wandering about. (Don't need no stinkin' trail!)
DeleteHotter than I could stand. I spent a day recuperating from getting there (see tomorrow's post), but need to study up on Bedouin technique to be able to hang out in summer.
Fantasy Canyon--I saw it once maybe six years ago on a cooler day than you did--is intriguing. It stops you in your tracks with a Look at That! It's unique, a little like Goblin Valley on the San Rafael Swell. Not much of a canyon, but terrific fantasy. Evocative of little mini-carvings scattered across the Colorado Plateau from Richfield to Monument Valley, but here they take over the general pattern instead of being one little gargoyle here and another hoodoo on up a ways. As your photos show, color isn't their main appeal, shape is. I like grandeur and sweep in my red rock country, and Fantasy Canyon doesn't offer much of that. How they got that way-------wow, I'd never have even an idea!!!!
ReplyDeleteNobody else there when you were, right?
ReplyDeleteIn fact there WERE several other vehicles. Among the crowd of 7 or so, were a couple of scampering youths and a young mother with babe in arms. Fortunately, they all had to be home for the 5 0'clock news and school the next day. I soon had it to myself.
DeleteThe area looked interesting (see next newer post) and I look forward to taking the road, a vague track, to Bonanza. Looking at Google Maps, it appears you can get from there to Dinosaur and thence to Massadona (in Colorado) to the east or Jensen to the West. The noise from the gas wells is a serious detriment to the ambiance, but the apparent available solitude was a major enticement.