Glen Canyon section from Damnation

So beautiful, so sad. link

Desert Getaways / Outside Magazine

cool places, but seems like they recommend yuppie hotels...

Lake Foul / NPR

Eliot Porter, Dungeon Canyon

The (^%O*^%(*& who damned Glen Canyon died recently, NPR had a brief remembrance of him tonight. Cadillac Desert is the classic book about the damning of the Colorado in order to have golf courses in the desert. Great book. Really there are a ton of interesting books about Glen Canyon: 'The place no one knew' by Eliot Porter, 'Glen Canyon: Images of a lost world' by Tad Nichols, 'All my rivers are gone' by Katie Lee, are 3 great ones. The Glen Canyon Institute has a great website about pre/post damning, and they show that with the current drought in the west some of what was covered is now visitable again.

Tad Nichols, Goddess of Glen Canyon

Sunset / Utah

Keely gets Sunset Magazine and one of the articles caught my eye. 'Follow the Red Rock Road' is subtitled 'In tumultuous times, find tranquility in the parks of southern Utah.' I really like Utah, the Escalante area, San Rafael Swell, Arches, the Anasazi Ruins in SE Utah.... The article struck a chord with me as we were on a car camping trip in Utah in Aug/Sep 2001. We were camping in BLM land in the middle of nowhere the whole trip, except for Sep 10 we were in a real campground - Calf Creek, and heard about Sep 11 from the campground host. Very surreal hearing something so messed up in such a beautiful place. It's kinda funny actually, my folks read about Calf Creek in Sunset Magazine back in the 70s, and we camped there every time we drove through Utah, which was often cause we drove cross country 10 times when I was a kid. 

This pic on the right was taken Sep 11. We did a hike down the Escalante River, and there was some Anasazi rock art in places. 

Everett Ruess

One of the classic mysteries in S/SE Utah had been what happened to Everett Ruess? He disappeared in the canyon country in the early 1900s. He is mentioned in a lot of books, and the book specifically about him is interesting. This morning NPR had a story about him, the mystery is solved. Alas, it's alot less romantic than what prior 'best guesses' were.