Devil's Garden, UT

August8, 2009 Devil's Garden is a crop of beige, bone and red rock formations off Hole-in-the-Rock Road. We wandered through spires, columns, arches, bridges, domes, dunes.

This little guy appeared early in our hike. He spanned the trail and seemed indifferent to our presence, which meant we could photograph him and admire him for a little while.

Three "gnomes" tower over Lloyd as our hike enters a dry wash. Note: not a cloud or threat of rain in sight, which is always important for wash hikes, but particularly important for this kind of wash.

There would be nowhere to go or any way to climb out of a flash flood in this wash. A hiker would be washed out, likely battered half or all to death.

In the wash:

Out of the wash:

More hoodoos and warped, petrified sand dunes:

Metate Arch, the most unusual arch we've ever seen:

Rows of rock soldiers:

An easy, fascinating little hike just a few miles from Escalante.

-P