We spent our day at Capital Reef National Park.

Assuming no one else knows much about this place, I will provide some basic information.

The name comes from the dominant feature of the park, a 100 mile long uplift (called a monocline) in the earths crust.

The early settlers called these features reefs.

Additionally, they thought the white rounded rock tops looked like the dome on the capital building (see cover picture) and those two features led to the park name.

The basic rock walls in the park are made of various types of sandstone laid down at different times and by different methods.

Each type erodes differently which yields the many varying formations seen as you drive through.

One other interesting fact is that they used to mine uranium here.

The mines are no longer active but are still visible.

We took a lovely hike through a wash.

The towering cliffs sure made us feel small.

I will post some pictures and one panoramic video I took to try and give an idea of the scope of the place.

As some of you know, all the pictures on the blog have to be done with the iPad or Dales phone; our camera is too old to allow transfer of pictures to the iPad.

I am slowly figuring out how to take better utilize the camera in the iPad.

By the time I get home, I may have mastered it.