Every time we drive Highway 14 from Cedar City to Todd's Junction, we wish that we could stop where Long Hollow meets the highway. It is such a dramatic spot, and it looks like it would make a good picture. Well, this weekend we tried to get there by hiking Ashdown Creek, from Potato Hollow to the Highway. Unfortunately, we didn't give ourselves enough time. It is probably only a mile or two as the crow flies, but the canyon is narrow and rugged. We went down past the confluence with Rattlesnake Creek, but had to turn back. It reminded me of hiking in Zion: It was a lot like the Virgin River, or even the Subway. Speaking of Zion, I saw a newspaper article that mentioned the possibility of converting Cedar Breaks to a national park and adding to it the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness. I guess that is alright except then the Parkies would get ahold of it and start making you get a permit and listen to their "be sure to carry lots of water and don't touch anything" talk with a bunch of yuppies. There'd be no more rambling around that part of the country by yourself with a bag of seeds and a crappy old camera.http://picasaweb.google.com/aorlemann/AshdownGorgeUtah#
2 comments:
Speaking of nice photos...all the photos you include on your blog are great but at stamp-size it is difficult to fully appreciate your photographic talents. On behalf of your loyal and faithful blog readers, I respectively request you increase the size of the images you post so we can really see those images. If necessary, add a watermark to protect your artistic property.
sincerely,
keith
I thought that all of my loyal and faithful readers were coming for the Hemingwayesque writing style. But, if it is pics you want, look for my links to Picasa. I'll try to upload a few there after each post. Many of the posts already have links and I just added one to this post, too. The stuff on Picassa is not super high res, but it is more like what you might want to see on the web. As for the protection of my artistic property, let me just say that I am typically unable to give my images away, so I'm not going to flatter myself with watermarks.
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