Mustard Point
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011: 2011 Trips, Colorado Plateau, Regions, Road Trips.
Day 8: Page to Silver City
Highlights: Moonscape
The night before, I had finally come out of the backcountry, me and my truck rattled to a pulp by washboard roads, looking for a campsite somewhere along the highway at the south end of the Escalante country.
I kept driving a few miles and trying turnouts, each leading to worse and worse washboard, until I finally came to the last turnoff before the Colorado River and Page.
It was a bizarre moonscape unlike anything I’d seen before, and the sun was rapidly setting. I drove up and over the rolling clay hills as night fell, and nowhere could I find a place to pull off and camp. Finally I came to a side road down a narrow canyon, and shortly encountered a flat wash where I could pull off, but it looked to be a put-in to Lake Powell, and it was a depressing place to camp. So I drove back to the highway and continued to Page, where I found another cheap motel on the “Street of the Little Motels.”
Then in the morning, before starting for home, I came back to the Smoky Mountain Road below Mustard Point and took these pictures.
Very nice variety of locales. I chosen your best from exposure, composition, correct time of day(whether in shadow or not), pizzazz, self-explanitory story in pic. Ones w/*, outstanding, w/**, superb!!
2,3*,5,7,9,10,11*,15,23,27*,29*,31*.39*,43, 51,55,59,6061,64,65,69,71*,86,88**,93,94, 95**,109,111*,119,123*,124*,126*,127**,129*, 136*,147*,149**,156,162*,168*,170*,173,178, 179,180.
I hope you can understand my critiquing.