when dinosaurs ruled the earth

ops ... this shoulda been first


A Landscape of Extinct Ecosystems

saturday Aug 23

Dinosaur National Monument . What a marvelous spot . Spilling out of the High Unitas Wilderness of Flaming Gorge & Ashley National Forest …… you free fall down onto the Colordo Plateau and into Vernal Utah. It feels like free fall …. 12 switchbacks coming down , pulling a trailer …. it gets exciting. The Unitas are assembled with an army of peaks over 12 and 13 thousand feet . The pass out of Flaming Gorge is about 9 …. I know I will hit higher , but it was my first pulling a trailer.
Hanging a turn to the east out of Vernal for Dinosaur , you quickly arrive at this remarkable "park" . It has gone from an 80 acre attempt to protect the most concentrated example of Dino geology to a 200,000 + acre extension to protect the totally unique geology of this confluence of two great rivers ( the Green and the Yampa )

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Powell was a runner ?

Green River ... from camp

rafting ... river was definitely up

ancient alluvial grafiti bird

sunset from camp

Not just Dinosaurs blew out here . This portion of the Colorado Plateau had an Anasazi era Indian Culture known as the Fremont ( not sure what the name means or where it came from ) But one thing foe sure, they had the same habit of drawing space aliens in their caves !

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