PART TWO: Red Rock Shapes
While we were down there, we found lots of caves and played in them. Took pictures too, but our rule is not personal photos of the kids on this site.
So here are some looks inside this little canyon without the kid or me (to me I just looked too ugly to include, and if you doubt it, here is proof):
So what did we see while taking pictures of shapely, colorful red rocks? This cavelet, for example, with internal wall structure (erosion-features):
And these nicely shaped cliffs:
And these colorful lichens (color enhanced by being wet):
Toward the bottom there was a weird hole that we expected to have water in it, but on closer examination it turned out to have a hole in a hole so it was pretty dry:
OK, this was a bit too deep and narrow for me to scramble into to retrieve someone else's trash:
But chances are that litter-bug did not get far. See that hand-print embedded into the sand? That was the imprint of the litter-bug-monster taking care of a litterer, letting him feel what it is like to be left for trash:
OK, what do we see if we look around and take a little wider view. Scenes like the next few:
On this next rock-face you can see the typical criss-cross pattern of an active sand-dune captured and made into sandstone water carrying silica and calcium-carbonate down into it and evaporating back out leaving silica and carbonate as a cement to make it solid:
Solid, that is, until new rains dissolve it all again and wash it down one grain at a time, making this kind of very red sand:
Then something strange happened, the south-wind stopped and a gentle but cold breeze started to blow from the north instead. As we scrambled back to the car it had already become a gale from the north and clouds were moving in and rain was falling again. So we started up the road to see if there might be snow falling at the highest point on the road at almost 5,000 feet (next page).
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If you want to see more of Red Rock, here is a previous hike I took
Also, a flyover in a commercial airliner coming from San Francisco to Las Vegas.
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