Explorations of Davis Canyon...

just days after heavy rains made it more challenging than usual, as the route into the canyon follows a system of normally dry arroyos:

Recent flash flooding significantly reconfigured the drainages, and kept us from making it all the way to the boundary of Canyonlands National Park. However, beautifully preserved current ripples were everywhere:

We hiked into the Park and up onto the slick rock, finding horizontal burrows weathering out of the Cedar Mesa Sandstone in dramatic relief:

Evidence of the early Anasazi culture are abundant in this part of the Colorado Plateau, and see if you can pick Rachel out of this image of a panel of pictographs: