Two Weeks in the Canyons of Utah
Photos from two weeks of travel and hiking in the deserts and canyons of southern Utah, including the San Rafael Swell, Capitol Reef, Escalante, and Bryce Canyon.

A spring snowstorm passes over the Little Grand Canyon, through which the San Rafael River flows.

Storm clouds over a remote canyon in the San Rafeal Swell.

Rain clouds pass over remote canyon country in southern Utah.



A labyrinth of colorful bentonite hills.

Psychedelic landscape of raspberry cheesecake hills.

Remote desert and bentonite hills in southern Utah.

Large-scale light painting amongst the spires of Cathedral Valley.

Sunrise light in Lower Cathedral Valley.

The Henry Mountains rise above the slickrock desert between Boulder and Escalante.

Camping under a huge alcove near the Escalante River.

Hiking through a deep canyon tributary of the Escalante River.

A little whirlpool generates bubbles in a small canyon creek.

Sunset reflection in a small waterhole at our slickrock campsite along the Boulder Mail Trail.

Sunrise illuminates a sea of slickrock along the Boulder Mail Trail between the towns of Escalante and Boulder.

Hiking through the river in Death Hollow.

A calm river pond deep in Death Hollow canyon.

Hiking through the river in Death Hollow.

Ominous stormy clouds over Bryce Canyon National Park - April.

Sunset over Panguitch and the Sevier River valley as seen from Red Canyon.

Ominous clouds signal the approach of a spring storm - April.





