Finally, it was time to go home to Colorado from the tour of the Southwest that I took with the great Russ Burden and three wonderful tour companions. But Utah was in the way.
So we stopped at Dead Horse Point State Park near Moab. This park is 2,000 feet above a gooseneck in the Colorado River and also overlooks Canyonlands National Park.
Years ago cowboys used the gooseneck as a natural corral to herd wild mustangs. At least one of these horses must have died there, although nobody knows for sure any more just what happened.
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We looked down a lot. Here Kylie gets as low as she could to photograph this puddle.
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In this photo that Russ took of me I didn’t have to get as low as Kylie to capture my shot. That’s because I am using an angle finder instead of a regular viewfinder.
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The canyonlands are within the national park of that name, which is just to the south and west of Dead Horse Point State Park. This section of the canyonlands is perhaps the most inhospitable part of the country, except for our big cities, of course.
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The canyonlands stretch for miles. Here is a closer view.
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This area stars in several films, including the final “Grand Canyon” scene of Thelma & Louise (1991). They plunge a ‘66 Thunderbird right down into the Grand Canyon — except that they actually filmed it at Dead Horse Point.
That film captured some of the drama of Dead Horse Point. But if you really want to see drama, you need to watch the rock climbing scene of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible II (2000). Unfortunately, it’s still a bit beyond my level, but now that I’m home I have time to study it.
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