RHH's photos

The photo shows El Capitan and Yosemite Falls from the the Yosemite Valley.

Our favorite hike in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park was the hike to and through Lost Canyon. There was water in the canyon, a rarity in the area and the hike along that part of the canyon was cool and refreshing. We are home again after driving through the night and all morning yesterday, a drive of over 1000 miles (1700 km) from Colorado. The last few weeks we put over 5000 miles on our car, but were able to see many family members.

The rock formations in Lost Canyon in Canyonlands National Park were no more amazing than the formations elsewhere, but hiking through the canyon one was down among the formations instead of above them.

We often make a side trip through the Badlands of South Dakota when traveling from Washington to Michigan to see family. This was taken on a 2019 visit to Badlands National Park.

Taken on a 2009 visit to Badlands National Park.

Photographed on a roadside in Kerr County, Texas, while on our way to Big Bend National Park.

Photographed on a trip to Utah and Texas. The roadsides were a garden of wildflowers and this was one of many we photographed.

These caves, as the name suggests, have a number of springs in them, and both for the water of the springs and for the shelter they provided, were important to the native Americans who lived in the area and later to the cowboys who ran cattle in the area. They are found in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. The inset shows the remains of an old cowboy camp and there are also pictographs left by the native Americans in some of the caves.

These shallow caves under the overhanging rock ledges are found in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. They were used by native Americans and later by cowboys who valued them for the shelter they provided and for the water to be found in springs and seeps in the caves. These are the remains of a cowboy camp in one of the caves. Others have pictographs left by the native Americans.