Sunday, 22 April 2018
Before leaving Dinosaur National Monument and heading for Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, we took some time to hike the 3-mile long "Sound of Silence" trail.
Before leaving Dinosaur National Monument and heading for Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, we took some time to hike the 3-mile long "Sound of Silence" trail.
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| The first part of the trail was a fairly easy walk up a "wash" (dry stream bed). |
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| The rock layers in this part of the park have been folded and scrambled. |
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| Layers of crumbly white rock (looked a lot like grains of quartz, but it was soft and powdery) were interleaved with the red sandstone. |
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| The back part of the trail was along a wide high valley between two ridges. |
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| This aged juniper reminded us of the bristlecone pines we saw in Great Basin National Park last year. |
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| The trail back to the trailhead was a steep climb down these rocks. Interesting! |
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