2022-02 Canyons of Utah

Canyons of Utah in Winter - February 2022

This trip was my second with Backcountry Journeys.

We had hoped for Winter, but we got winter (small w). Don’t get me wrong, other signs of winter were there. I froze my ass off a couple of times and almost all of the restaurants were closed so we ate at the same few crappy places repeatedly. Let’s just say that it was not a culinary tour.

Grant Ordelheide was our guide and he’s a hell of a photographer and photography coach. I hope to work with him again.

The word “hoodoo” means to bewitch, which is what Bryce Canyon’s rock formations surely do.

The hoodoos we are talking about are tall skinny shafts of rock that protrude from the bottom of arid basins. Hoodoos are most commonly found in the High Plateaus region of the Colorado Plateau and in the Badlands regions of the Northern Great Plains. While hoodoos are scattered throughout these areas, nowhere in the world are they as abundant as in the northern section of Bryce Canyon National Park.

Source: myutahparks.com