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Southern Utah, Nevada, Mew Mexico
Road Trip April 2001
All images are copyright © James W. Blilie, 2001 through 2010, All rights reserved
I went to southern Utah in the late spring to Cedar Mesa, Butler Wash (again), and northwestern New Mexico.
I decided to avoid the major sights and sites this time (National Parks and Monuments) and go to the BLM lands
and other more or less uncontrolled wild areas. I primarily went to Butler Wash near Bluff, UT, Cedar Mesa,
and areas between. I also visited northwestern New Mexico to see Chaco Canyon and and simply to "tag" New Mexico
as the last of the 50 United States that I have visited. I think I was a little rusty with my photography ...
I had my new 2000 Toyota Tundra that allowed me to get to places I otherwise couldn't have, like Cedar Mesa.
I also spent the whole trip listening to David Gray's Album White Ladder, which Phyllis had sent me for my birthday.
Listen to the song "Babylon". That song went right into me. Many other big things happened in 2001 then!
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Anasazi buildings, Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon
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| Eastern Oregon | Eastern Oregon | Eastern Oregon | Eastern Oregon: Malheur Wildlife Refuge | Sagebrush, northern Nevada |
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| Dawn, northern Nevada | Nevada | Nevada | Nevada | Nevada |
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| Nevada | Nevada | Nevada | Nevada | Nevada |
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| Nevada | Utah - shadow self-portrait | Utah | Utah | First camp in Utah |
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| Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | ~800-yera old fingerprints from the Anasazi, Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | Cedar Mesa, view from the Anasazi buildings, Road Canyon |
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| Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | Cedar Mesa, Road Canyon | Cedar
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Canyon, Permian tetrapod trackway in, I think, the Cedar
Mesa Sandstone
Possibly from: Sphenacodon Possibly from: Eryops or from: a pelycosaur |
Looking back up to Cedar Mesa. There is a road going down the face of that cliff (I had just driven down it; maybe the scariest road I've ever driven) down the Moki Dugway | Petroglyphs "Wolfman Group", Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah |
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| Petroglyphs "Wolfman Group", Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Petroglyphs "Wolfman Group", the Wolfman, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Petroglyphs, "Wolfman Group" Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Petroglyphs, "Wolfman Group" Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Anasazi buildings and pot and flint shards, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah |
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| Anasazi pot and flint shards, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Anasazi building, looking out the front door, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Anasazi building, detail of the walls, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Anasazi building, Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah | Butler Wash, near Bluff, Utah |
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| View from Bluff, Utah | View from Bluff, Utah | View from Bluff, Utah, the parting glass | ||
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| Anasazi ruins | Anasazi ruins | Anasazi ruins | SE Utah | |
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| Idaho, driving home | Drving home: The Palouse, eastern WA |
Background image is Anasazi fingerprints, Cedar Mesa, April 2001
Last updated: 7-May-2010
