Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

...not to go to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

#1: Its 65 (or whatever) miles from Moab! That's an hour and a half --minimum-- hours of precious driving time, during which you have to go past the Cameo Cliffs and Muleshoe Canyon and a bunch of other essentially uninteresting areas while you could've gotten to Arches NP in a matter of minutes. Along with roughly 14,867 other people, all of whom are lined up at the TWO entrance booths Arches has to offer.

#2: After turning off the 'highway' (harrumph; all two lanes of it), you have to go past Marie's Place and through Photograph Gap under the disdainful eye of the Abajo Mountains (and, at dusk, herds of deer that number in the hundreds). Before long, you exit Hart's Draw and you drop into Indian Creek Canyon, a known yawner of a canyon with nothing whatsoever to see. Once it opens up, its all cow country, right up to the Park Boundary, and you know how dreadful that can be.

#3: The Needles is predominantly a backcountry place, and everybody knows: if its more than ten feet off the (paved) road, it isn't photogenic.

Attached are three images to illustrate ways I wasted a whole day. And didn't even go into the Park.

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LESTAHL Loc: Colorado

and if you go east toward the La Sal Mtns you can find dinosaur tracks.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Why go all that way? There's dino tracks a mile and a half from where I live.

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

All three downloads and compositions are excellent Cany, love the clouds in #3.

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Damn Cany, I never miss a chance to go the Needles district...and now your advertising the place!! And, you had to post some excellent photos and reasons to go there!! Enjoyed your composition of the "Six Shooters".

NMGal Loc: NE NM

I would hardly call the day wasted. Great photos.

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Good set. I would like to visit there.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Typical Slacker behavior.

#1 is just beautiful.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Jeeze, Cany. When you waste your time and then post it, you are wasting ALL of our time. You've really disappointed this time. Looks like there is more rock art on the next panel over on that first photo. Anything good?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

As rg all-too-accurately (above) pointed out, yeah, slacker-ness & generally wasting my --and anybody else's-- time, with irrelevancies & pointlessnesses & such has sort of become my goal in life. As regards the adjacent panel, no, there's nothing really special. (The special stuff --fifty or eighty panels, however many there might be-- are all on the other side of the canyon (assuming you're not including the 'Fighting Man' panel or a few dozen others on the same side as the panel I included) and jeez!, ya gotta walk as much as a hunnert yards or whatever to see the good stuff, and there's no way I'd suggest anybody doing something as goofy as that.)

I'd be lying if I said, 'sorry to waste your time.' But only because lying, like coming up with snark, takes work, and we slackers do not work at anything except not working.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

I am deeply insulted, rg. However accurate your description might be.

But I'm pleased you liked #1, so I suppose its a wash.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Snark-o-meter not operating today?

But thanks.....

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

B-b-but, its all negative advertising, Jim! (Best way to keep secrets is to shout 'em from the rooftops!)

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Thanks, Syl. Still, there's nowhere to get a proper English tea, with maybe a scone or two, anywhere around here, though, so we gotta settle for compositions and clouds and stuff.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

I expect you'd like it quite a lot. To the point that there's places around here you'd think you're still home. (Ok, maybe not in Sydney, exactly, but very much so like in other parts of Oz-land.)