artistjourney
Tales from the Road
06/28/09
The town of Page is in Arizona, just a few miles south of the Utah border. During our week long stay in Page, we took a morning hike on the Toadstool Trail, just over the border in the Paria Rimrocks area.
We parked beside the highway and walked up a wash (dry riverbed) into a canyon. About a mile in we found these rock formations called toadstools for obvious reasons. They form this way because the dark rocks on top are harder so act as a protective layer over, but erode slower than, the reddish sandstone underneath. In the first photo below you can see me leaning on a small one. The rest of the photos show other interesting views.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm The dark sky behind in the last shot is quite nice with the red and whitish rock in the middle. Very American LOL.