qsysue Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I've moved to southern Utah. IOU suggested I start a Utah thread, but I'm sure I'll include stuff from Arizona and Nevada as well. It's crazy here, all the hiking and biking trails everywhere. Lots of rocky cliffs and stuff to explore. I've really only hiked one trail so far, it's called the Anasazi trail because the cliffs it takes you to are covered in ancient rock drawings. I love this stuff. This is a stitched panorama taken with my cell phone. It's almost a 180 degree view. Standing at the curve of a switchback in the trail. This is a cell phone pic, hard to tell in the sun what's in the frame. I climbed down into the rocks on the cliff, figuring if someone made it down there to make the drawings, I could, too. It was easy getting down. Finding my way back up was harder, haha. Wonder what it all means? No one knows for sure. Someone was impressed with himself. Maybe aliens with 14 toes made these drawings? Can't tell it, but there's a small river in the valley below. Easy to imagine families camped down there and their teenagers hiking up the cliff to etch stuff in the rocks...thousands of years ago. Spiral marks the spot. Here's video that shows the view while hiking the trail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whenigodeaf/8120569178/in/photostream 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I have been all over northern Utah. While I like the geography, I hate the people. I hope southern Utah is totally different. I Like your pics. keep posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 This is a spot in St George called Pioneer Park. It reminds me a lot of the Valley of Fire, which is one of my favorite places on earth (it's about an hour north of Vegas). For the record, I haven't been to Zions National Park yet. Another in-camera stitched panorama from my cell phone. There's a cavern you can walk right into. Someone carved this face into the rock near the back. You can climb all over the rock formations. It's a really neat place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 The closest train tracks in Utah to where I live are an hour north in a little modern ghost town called Modena. It's still populated but most of the houses and buildings are pretty run down. There might be more dogs living there than people. These are a mixture of film (old folding camera) and digital (point and shoot) shots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 great stuff q. i've always wanted to visit there for climbing and riding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU_TOO Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Nice. That ceiling shot is on the ill mode tip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Easley Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 I went from southern AZ through Mount Zion ntl park over the summer. Beautiful shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 I went from southern AZ through Mount Zion ntl park over the summer. Beautiful shit. I live pretty close to Zion but still haven't gotten over there to check it out. Hopefully next weekend. I went to a little mining ghost town called Silver Reef. It's right next to a small non-ghost town called Leeds, and the historical spots are actually surrounded by big huge modern houses, it's kinda funny. And annoying when you try to get shots of the old ruins but you can only shoot them from certain angles, otherwise you get the modern houses in the frame. There are a couple old pioneer cemeteries there (I have a thing for old cemeteries). Most of the grave markers are blank wooden crosses. The few remaining marked gravestones are mostly of children, it's pretty sad. Cell phone panorama: There were a couple modern graves there (over behind my car). One was a man who died last year, he was about my age (42). Here's a digital shot of the landscape there: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Went to Vegas yesterday. Also took my husband up to the Anasazi trail, he hadn't been yet. (Same place as in the first post, with the ancient rock drawings.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 I went out exploring the other weekend. Ended up on the road to Zion National Park, but my car started to overheat, so I didn't get as far as I wanted. There's a little tourist trap "mining town" called Fort Zion in a town called Virgin: It's closed for the winter. I found this spot along the Virgin River in LaVerkin, though, with an abandoned structure. You'd think there'd be abandoned stuff everywhere, this being the desert, but I haven't found many abandoned buildings yet. It's at the bottom of a steep cliff, the trail is a hard climb back up. Turns out it was once a power generator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Cool photos. Thanks for sharing. The last chance saloon got me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 This is Sand Hollow State Park. A water reservoir. You can boat and dirt bike here (there are dunes--orange dunes). It's in a town called Hurricane, which the locals pronounce "Herkin." I refuse to call it that. You've got a town with the best name ever, and you're not going to say it right? Taken with a Nikon V1 (which I just picked up used really cheap). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU_TOO Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Nice. You seem to find the cool, in the somewhat uncool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thank you! This is at the Red Cliffs Rec Area near Hurricane, UT: I'll probably post more pics from that area soon. Beryl, UT is another modern day ghost town. I'm not even sure you can call it a town, there's only a couple farms, from what I saw. And a few abandoned houses: Need to get back up there when it's not below freezing and take more pictures. Pinhole shot of a petroglyph: This is in Nevada near the Valley of Fire: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana fishd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 This is really great. Thanks for sharing your travels. I really like the rock carvings you found! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMdoubleXL Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 these are great-as always. im from northern Utah and always loved riving back home because it is a really pretty state. you have found some great places. like I said, im from utah, and still refuse to call it Herkin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 I haven't posted in here in forever. I haven't really done that much shooting since moving to Utah, not like I used to. It's either too hot to go anywhere or nothing worth taking pictures of. But here's some since the last time I posted. Places in Snow Canyon: Gunlock, UT: Frozen lake in April, last spring--just beginning to thaw: Sand Hollow water resevoir: Abandoned houses in Modena, UT: Over Under wheat paste on a closed down bowling alley in Hurricane, UT: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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