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To improve visibility with the mirrors I got some simple round fish-eye mirrors and stuck them onto the side mirrors. Another simple $2.00 improvement. I already had my side mirrors out covering my blind spots ala the Car Talk method, but the round mirrors give me a better view up, down, and even further to the side. bsmirror

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Sunset in Indian Creek of the Bears Ears National Monument. This area is mecca for rock climbers, almost every surface along the canyon is a climbing route. Although a few were off-limits at the times because Peregrine Falcon chicks were fledgling at the time. At the end was also a new ATV trail Obama created along with the creation of the new National Monument. The short connector trail completes a giant 700 mile or so loop of existing ATV paths runs through San Juan County. There was a gap here where the ATVs had to run along the highway shoulder endangering riders and drivers. I'm not sure if the new trail plans got shut down when they started attacking the monument trying to revoke it.

Indian creek is jam packed with Native artifacts, rock art, and old structures. Most people stop at Newspaper Rock, but about every 200ft along the road there are rock carvings in the cliff side. Once you know to look at the places with desert varnish that they could chip into, and start looking 4-6ft above the ground line, you see carvings everywhere. This bighorn progression isn't a famous panel, there's no official pullout with an information sign, and it's hidden behind some bushes and trees. It's just that carving like these are so common here they can't make a big show out of every single one.

Before it was a National Park, Canyonlands saw a lot of cattle ranching (and some devastating erosion as a result in Salt Creek), and the old cowboy camps in the area give an idea of what life was like back then. Like the upside down coffee cans on table legs to keep mice off the table, and the cans hammered between wood planks to keep the mice out of the cattle feed box.

Slickrock textures. Another benefit of the sun low on the horizon is it brings out the texture of the usually flat looking slickrock. This stuff is the usual smooth easy stuff to walk on, but it certainly isn't "slick".

If there is a gap of clear sky on the horizon, suffer through the gloomy overcast sky for the full sunset! "Undercloud" sunsets are the best! For the last two hours of hiking, clouds blotted out the sky, you could feel occasional drops of rain, the temperature dropped down to uncomfortably cold, and the wind kicked up blowing it all in your face. But on the horizon was a gap of clear sky to the west. As golden hour came and went as gray overcast misery, all the other hikers and photographers were hustling off the trail to head back to camp and I was jogging in the opposite direction trying to get to a good vantage point before the sun hit the gap. Then for about 10 minutes of sunset and another 10 minutes of blue hour, the sky erupted in orange and yellows reflected off the bottom of the overhead cloud ceiling. That light reflecting back onto the rocks. Everything just had an orange glow that seemed to come from all directions, even behind me. The picture is taken from Pothole Point, looking toward "The Plug" and "Chimney Rock" in the Maze District.

Looking up Salt Creek Wash from the Colorado River Overlook in the Needles. It's amazing that the sandy wash I was at earlier is also what carved this massive canyon into the landscape.

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