by Don McGowan | Oct 30, 2021 | Monthly Archives, October 2021, Uncategorized
There are times when the rising of the morning sun in the East seems positively otherworldly. This past Thursday in Sevier County, Tennessee was one of those times. I had come over from Buncombe County (NC) to meet with an old (long time) colleague and friend to...
by Don McGowan | Oct 17, 2021 | Monthly Archives, October 2021, Uncategorized
Of course it rains in Southern California, and it rains in the upper slickrock of Zion National Park, although not terribly often. But recently, as I was passing on my way from Las Vegas to Bryce Canyon, a sudden storm deposited a substantial downpour over the redrock...
by Don McGowan | Sep 26, 2021 | Monthly Archives, October 2021, Uncategorized
Between 600-1300A.D. a culture that erroneously came to be called the Fremont People hunted and farmed the awesome sandstone uplifts and narrow valleys of what is now Capitol Reef National Park. What we know is that the modern Hopi acknowledge these ancient ones as...
