Day September 2, 2007

River into Salt Canyon AZ

Arizona and Utah have absolutely spectacular and ever-changing vistas. Huge canyons, massive mesas, forest, rolling hillsides, old lava flows. This photo is just a tiny glimpse of what they offer.

Hoodoo

A hoodoo is eroded rock, photo taken on Mt. Lemmon in Tucson AZ

Pine Beetle’s deadly march

Driving through southern Utah today from Arizona, we saw thousands of pine trees that have been killed by the voracious pine beetle. Normally, severe winter cold will slow down the pine beetle, but winters lately in the American West have…