Welcome to Bryce Canyon. The home of the Hoodoos. A hoodoo is a pinnacle or odd shaped rock left standing by the forces of erosion. There are thousands of these rock formations, some several hundred feet high. We will be here for two days. Tuesday we leave for Canyonlands and Arches. Both are in southeast Utah. The next opportunity to email will be on May 7 from Pocatello, Idaho. So this is the last you'll hear from us for about 5 days. Hopefully we will be able to check emails in between, but the blog picture uploads take a lot of time. Today we are in a KOA log cabin, as the winds are howling at 28 mph constant, with gusts up to 47 mph. The temperature is right around 25F, making the wind chill around 0F. Too much fun for an evening in a tent. The weather gets better starting tomorrow. Woohoo! A reminder picture is that we are over 9000 feet in elevation. That is 3000 feet higher than Mt. Washington in NH. So there is lots of snow up here. Sure will be nice to get rid of these snowbanks.
Hoodoos. Thousands of them.
If you look closely, you'll see some tall Ponderosa pines in the middle of the picture. Not sure how tall those pines are, but it'll help you to get a perspective on the height of the hoodoos.
Hoodoo country... 3000 feet higher than Mt. Washington
Can you find the rock bridge in this picture?
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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I am the first one to see where the rock bridge is (= I am so PROUD of myself... That is REALLY cool....
Glad you guy's are having a GREAT time!
Thanks for sending the GREAT pics.
AND......... We have some wonderful friends that are apparently traveling through the west as well. They posted some of their pics on FB from the petrified forest too! Apparently you guy's just missed each other by 2-4 days.. tooooooooooo funny.!!
Been PLENTY warm here, had to sleep with the windows open, the humidity was so HUMID and STICKY... Enjoy the snow hahaha
Love, RAGGMOPP
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