Over the last few days, the Silver Bullet and I followed an erratic course across the Colorado Plateau, beginning on the banks of the Animas River and ending up along the North Fork of the Gunnison, dipping into a half-dozen watersheds — big and small — on the way. When charted on a map, my trip looks insignificant — a little jaunt through a relatively tiny corner of the world.
I wasn't born there, nor was I raised there, but I've spent a whole lot of time there and those places you photographed are pretty familiar. Its a magical place and I personally feel that Hovenweep is the heart of it. Or maybe the Kaiparowits Plateau. Hope the place can hold out against the flood of people. At least we will have photographs like yours to remind us of what the region once looked like before the developers arrived in numbers.
Thanks Jonathan; Great photos. You and I have experienced lifetimes at different corners of the Plateau, you in the south east, me towards the NW, Capitol Reef country. I'm here now, looking out the window at Thousand Lake Mt., over the shoulders of soaring sandstone cliff faces. Damn lucky, if I do say so.
I wasn't born there, nor was I raised there, but I've spent a whole lot of time there and those places you photographed are pretty familiar. Its a magical place and I personally feel that Hovenweep is the heart of it. Or maybe the Kaiparowits Plateau. Hope the place can hold out against the flood of people. At least we will have photographs like yours to remind us of what the region once looked like before the developers arrived in numbers.
Thanks Jonathan; Great photos. You and I have experienced lifetimes at different corners of the Plateau, you in the south east, me towards the NW, Capitol Reef country. I'm here now, looking out the window at Thousand Lake Mt., over the shoulders of soaring sandstone cliff faces. Damn lucky, if I do say so.
I’d love to know the story behind the crashed car. Recalled of course the magic of the ending of a certain movie.
Beautiful photography!
Fantastic pictures - thanks so much.
This makes me want to read more and see more photos of your journeys through this region!