Cathedral Valley, Utah

I wanted to see the east side of Capitol Reef. We went down the Burr Trail from Boulder until we got to the Notom-Bullfrog Road. We went north from there with the reef on one side and Tarantula Mesa on the other. When we got to Notom, we went East. The sun was low in the sky and the lighting of South Caineville Mesa was spectacular. We had dinner at Blondies in Hanksville and spent the night in Caineville. In the morning we headed up Caineville Wash right at sunrise. Again, the low winter lighting was incredible. We got to Cathedral Valley by mid-morning. It was too cold--and the day was too short--to do much more than a drive-by. But we went up to Hartnet Junction and down the west side--across the Bentonite Hills and over the river ford near Notom.

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