For #WaterWednesday here's the Escalante River and Stevens Arch, with my hiking partner helpfully providing a sense of scale. #hiking #backpacking #landscapes

For #RockinTuesday here's some tilted, faulted, eroded, and generally messed-up* sandstone along the edge of the East Kaibab Monocline near Kanab, UT. *"Generally messed-up" is a perfectly good geological term.😉

This little Pinyon pine cone seems apropos for #BlueSkyMonday and the beginning of meteorological winter. I hope December brings you all kinds of good things! #hiking #Utah 🌿

The Chinle Formation is unmistakable. In other areas - near Capitol Reef, for example - it contains quantities of petrified wood. I've seen entire petrified logs in that region. I hope you have a peaceful Sunday! #OrangeSun #ColorADay #Stunday #hiking

Milkvetch (Astragalus sp.) still in bloom. Glorious weather for milkvetches and hiking.🌞🌞🌞 #hiking #utah 🌿

Yes, it's two days after Thanksgiving, but let me present what IMO should be named "Turkey Rock." I hope you all have a good weekend! #hiking #landscapes #utah

For #YellowThu here's a wild canyon that's yellow, orange, and white. I hope your Thanksgiving is warm and peaceful! #ColorADay #landscapes #hiking

For #RockinTuesday It's not my fault, Part 637. Yesterday as I was scrambling to the top of a mesa, I had to pause to get a shot of this series of little faults. I hope you all have a good day! #hiking #landscapes

It's #BlueSkyMonday and the beginning of Thanksgiving week. I'm deeply thankful to live in a place surrounded by public lands. This belongs to you and me.🩷 #ShotsInSlots #hiking #landscapes

After the rain. #Stunday #hiking

It's the weekend and adventure awaits. #ShotsInSlots #hiking

My favorite bird for #BWFri Maybe I've mentioned this, but my fondest wish is to be reincarnated as a raven. I hope Friday treats you all well! #ColorADay

Some beautiful, sunlit fall foliage for #YellowThu I hope you all have a great day! #ColorADay #hiking

For #WaterWednesday a full waterpocket before all the rain and snow in northern Arizona this week. I'll have to go back up there soon - there'll be hundreds of pools. #hiking #landscapes

I saw this beautiful point while exploring in the Vermilion Cliffs yesterday. It shown brightly against the orange sand and pebbles. Kind of made my day. #OrangeSun #ColorADay #hiking

For #BWFri ...this is actually a fairly small sandstone spire, but with a little cropping it looks like it belongs somewhere in Patagonia. I hope you all survived the week in good spirits! #ColorADay #hiking

They're called the Vermilion Cliffs for good reason. I hope you all have a great day! #ColorADay #RedWed #hiking

For #RockinTuesday may I present some Moqui marbles - or in this case, Moqui ping pong balls. They're iron concretions that form in sandstone and the Navaho Sandstone is famous for them. I hope you all have a good Tuesday!

It's #BlueSkyMonday - a good day for House Democrats to check if they found their Senate colleagues' missing spines. In any case, I hope the week treat you well. Here's the waning gibbous moon peeking through golden cottonwood leaves.

Prickly pear cactus green and plump after the recent rains. #ColorADay #GreenSat #hiking 🌿

For #RockinTuesday - a favorite spot in the Vermilion Cliffs, northern Arizona. The landscape doing a red, white, and blue thing. #hiking

Here we are at #BlueSkyMonday - again! Sometimes it can feel like you're shouldering a huge boulder, but things will get better, for sure. #ColorADay #PinkMon #hiking #landscapes

Walking up through The Cockscomb just west of the Paria River in southern Utah. These rocks were steeply tilted by the formation of the East Kaibab Monocline, so you're walking back through time as you hike upwards. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #hiking

One simply doesn't walk past a group of asters without taking a photo. iNaturalist tells me that this is a tansyaster (Dieteria sp.) I hope you all have a good weekend! 🌿 #hiking

For #scape day, behold the magnificence of the Navajo Sandstone. My photo from a site near Escalante, UT. #hiking

ANOTHER slot canyon?!? In this neck of the woods, it's hard to go more than a few hundred yards without encountering a slot or a hoodoo. Hope you all have a good Thursday. #YellowThu #ColorADay #hiking #ShotsInSlots

Ice cream castles in the air...the Entrada Formation and its otherworldly landscapes. I hope Wednesday treats you all gently. #hiking #scapes

For #RockinTuesday here's today's version of It's Not My Fault. A small normal fault in the Moenkopi Formation along the lower Paria River in southern Utah. #hiking

It's BlueSky Monday, so let's shoot for getting through the week in one piece. And if you do better than that, it'll be cause for a little celebration. #ShotsInSlots #scapes

Sunset in canyon country. #OrangeSun #ColorADay #scapes

Erosion is a relentless and skillful sculptor. To me, this looks like a beautiful piece of contemporary art. #hiking #scapes

Peering down into Glen Canyon and the Colorado River, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. I hope you're all having a good Friday! #hiking #landscapes

For #RockinTuesday here's a nice hoodoo near Big Water, UT. #hiking #landscapes

A survivor. We should probably take notes. #BlueSkyMonday #hiking #landscapes

This canyon ends at a big dryfall above the Colorado River. I was within about 100 yards of the dryfall when I encountered these full potholes. I stood there for a bit and considered, then decided that wading wasn't on today's agenda. #ShotsInSlots #hiking #landscapes

#RockinTuesday Freshly-washed sandstone just seemed so pure this morning. #hiking #ShotsInSlots

Interior of an old cabin, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. All it needs is a good scrubbing.😉 #BlueTue #ColorADay #hiking

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day and #PinkMon with pictographs at Natural Bridges National Monument. I hope you all have a good day! #ColorADay #hiking

"I'm invisible!" #OrangeSun #ColorADay #hiking

Slickrock desert after three days of rain. I hope you all have a great Sunday! #hiking #landscapes

I encountered this seasonably appropriate Great Horned owl in a neighborhood slot canyon. I had to pan out to get this photo because I was standing at the edge of a 40' dryfall. #ShotsInSlots #hiking 🌿

#FencepostFriday and #scape day, along with the ubiquitous tumbleweed.

A canyon a day. It's like taking a multivitamin. #YellowThu #ColorADay #hiking #landscapes

The rocks of the Claron Formation in Red Canyon (just west of Bryce Canyon NP) are so improbably red that they glow. #RedWed #ColorADay

#RockinTuesday The Navajo Sandstone looking deranged and re-arranged in a canyon near Escalante, UT. #hiking #landscapes

Looking up at Calf Pasture Point in southern Utah. I hope you all have a good Sunday! #Stunday #hiking #landscapes

Evening colors on Cedar Mesa, UT. I had a coyote and a common poorwill for company. #BlueSkyArtShow #Relax

#FencepostFriday There's no shortage of old fences, stock corrals, and cabins on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. I cringe at the damage and desecration that happen on our public lands, especially during government shutdowns.

Desert View Watchtower on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Designed by Mary Colter, it's a work of genius. #BWFri #ColorADay

Fall is the most beautiful season in the canyons. #YellowThu #ColorADay #hiking #landscapes