You wake up with a blue hue inside your vision. Unzip your bag and half way down the zipper gets lodged between a sand particle and a soft place. The mild haze of blue pastels and a thought of “ did I even sleep”, is rubbed across the eye like sand paper on the eyelid. Cognition is now coming around like a swift...
Escalante, a vast sandy desert filled Life, wonder, and the occasional drainage here and there. Some of the details are harder to see than others.Many of Escalante's passages look flat and lifeless horizontally But when you get rather close to them, they are quite vertical. The desert is covered with a network of drainages that seek the Escalante river and ultimately, lake Powell. One particular area we...
