by Don McGowan | Oct 24, 2020 | October 2020
Just beyond Mile Marker (MM) 469, at the very end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, growing on the banks of the fully integrated Oconaluftee River on River Right at the confluence of Raven Fork with the other already joined forks of the great stream, a many-yeared sycamore...
by Don McGowan | Oct 17, 2020 | October 2020
There is a 75-mile-long, north-south trending ridge of uplifted, stratified rock that rises some 18 miles west of Green River, Utah. The strata of this ridge bear a downward cant as they slope from the crest. This anticline is known as the San Rafael Swell. The jagged...
by Don McGowan | Oct 11, 2020 | October 2020
There are almost as many different kinds of hoodoos that inhabit the strange geology gardens of the Colorado Plateau and Southern Utah as there are sandstone strata and caprock; but none are more exotic than the Entrada Sandstone goblins of Goblin Valley State Park....
by Don McGowan | Oct 4, 2020 | October 2020
I remember the very first time I photographed Mesa Arch at sunrise. It’s a bit of a haul to leave Moab long before the sun has awakened and drive 39 miles to the trailhead for the .35-mile hike out to the famous rock strata with a hole underneath that peers...
