In the Island of the Sky district of Canyonlands. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9087.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9090.jpg) | Starting the Syncline Loop trail. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9094.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9095.jpg) | Exposed wood looks like this after some time in the sun. | | Random pictures of the trail down to our campsite. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9111.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9118.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9124.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9120.jpg) | | | You can catch a glimpse of the Green River in the distance here. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9129.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9133.jpg) | | | Eric had some blister problems. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9136.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9139.jpg) | It seemed like it was a tradition to add a rock to this particular cairn, so we continued it. | | In the riverbed were fresh green cottonwood trees. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9141.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9144.jpg) | Indian paintbrush. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9153.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9157.jpg) | | | Strange texture to these rocks. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9158.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9162.jpg) | Claret cup cactus. | | These are the fossilized remains of the rippled bottom of an ocean. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9187.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9200.jpg) | The view from our campsite. | | Eric examining an ant colony. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9205.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9208.jpg) | Larkspur | | Neat rocks |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9211.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9212.jpg) | | | Relaxing in camp. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9218.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9226.jpg) | Eric cooking dinner | | After dinner we took a stroll. Eric found a heart-shaped rock. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9234.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9245.jpg) | We also found a survey post from 1954, when this area still belonged to the Bureau of Land Management. | | This rock looked like a monkey head to me. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9249.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2001/utah/05-05-2001/gallery_img_9266.jpg) | There was a bit of sun around sunset, just enough for some great photos of some of the rocks that had fallen from the cliffs. | | It was almost a full moon... | | | | | |