by Lui Umano | Oct 17, 2015 | October 2015
Dropping off the steep decline of Cedar Mesa, which itself is an amazing piece of geological handiwork, you come upon the narrow valley of Comb Wash appearing as an oasis. However, rising up as the east flank of the wash, the spectacle of Comb Ridge, an 80-mile-long...
by Lui Umano | Oct 9, 2015 | October 2015
Charlie Moore is a photographer, and a good one, too. For a number of years he also owned and operated Overland Canyon Tours in Page, Arizona. He was the only outfitter to offer photography tours of an amazing slot canyon called, simply, Canyon X. For many reasons...
by Lui Umano | Oct 2, 2015 | October 2015
Like a shroud, fog, rolling up from the high valleys of the Davidson River watershed west of Looking Glass Rock, covers the hollows and spur ridges on the eastern shoulder of the Devil’s Courthouse: Courthouse, Chestnut, and Shuck, by name. In brief moments of...
by Lui Umano | Sep 26, 2015 | September 2015
As US441 climbs the long shoulder of Thomas Divide in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rising from the steep-sided valley of Beech Flats Prong into the high country, it is possible to look back and see the lower reaches of Mt. Kephart come into relief. As I made...
by Lui Umano | Sep 18, 2015 | September 2015
I know that Minnesota is called the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” and it’s true enough; but there are also lakes almost too numerous to count in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as well. Some of the most amazingly colorful places I know lie on waters between...
