As I told you before, we left the Dead Horse viewpoint and dove
into the thick fog. The windy road ran between the cliffs and on an open
space. Sometimes we barely could see the road and sometimes we had a
nice and good view of where we were going. No one can even forget the
road like this... no one...
We made one more turn and the car rolled to stop. All of us,
including the driver, were looking not at the road in front of us but
through the right window, where we could see the edge of the canyon and
the fog, filling the valley up to the edge... It was like looking at a
huge pan of boiling milk that was moving, spilling over the edge and
after a moment disappearing from the view.
In a few minutes we stopped at the biggest Canyonlands viewpoint,
left the car and moved to the edge where immediately our heart rates
doubled (or, probably, tripled). We were walking through the thick snow
and couldn't take our eyes from the canyon down below... We were looking
at the valleys and rivers, running across the canyon bed. At the roads
and faults...
We were looking down the 900 feet canyon and couldn't speak...
The snow started again and the view became fuzzy, unclear... but still magic and incredibly beautiful... Look for yourself!
I climbed on the top or the cliff to have a better view and needed to walk knee deep in snow. But it worth it ;)
Despite the snow and fog, the sun peeked through the clouds from
time to time and even melted some ice on the ends of the branches. Drops
of water were falling at the ground and we already were unaware of what time of the year it was, Winter or Spring... cuz it looked both ;)
The wall surrounding the trail looked amazing with the snow.
Entangled trees covered with snow looked unearthly and kinda magic...
We drove to the next viewpoint and were surprised to see a
completely different view. Probably because of the river down below or
something else, but the fog on this side was much thicker and the far
end was completely hidden under the white blanket.
After just five minutes the sun came from behind the clouds and the fog just disappeared. But just for five minutes ;)
Believe it or not, but this is just 8 seconds between the previous
shot and the next one. And the huge rock was already almost invisible
through the fog... I have one more picture, a few seconds later...
but... it is pointless to show it. It is just gray fog with nothing to
see. I checked the timestamps on my pics later, it took only 20 seconds
to change the view from "clear" to "completely foggy" so fast the change
happened... The gray mantle of fog was flying so fast...
There was nothing to see there anymore so we drove off the parking lot and dove into the fog again, driving back to the highway.
To be continued...
Pictures were taken on February 20, 2010.
Breath-taking
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