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![UT 95](../../images/roads/ut095-01.jpg)
91 Slides: 67 on UT 95 from Hanksville to Blanding;
9 on UT 275 (Natural Bridges National Monument); 15 on UT 161 (Goosenecks and Moki Dugway)
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![UT 95](../../images/roads/ut095-02.JPG)
Bicentennial Highway
Jun 07 2021 - 2:49 pm
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![Henry Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-03.JPG)
Henry Mountains to the south
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![Utah Desert](../../images/roads/ut095-04.JPG)
Desert to the north
Jun 07 2021 - 1:46 pm
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![Henry Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-05.jpg)
Bull Mountain (9,187') background (l to r): Mt. Ellen (11,522') and Mt. Pennel (11,371') highest peaks in the Henry Mountains
Jun 07 2021 - 2:04 pm
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![Entrada Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-06.jpg)
Entrada Sandstone capped by rounded gravel
Jun 07 2021 - 2:21 pm
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![History Repeating](../../images/roads/ut095-07.jpg)
Like today
Jun 07 2021 - 2:25 pm
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![UT 276](../../images/roads/ut095-08.JPG)
UT 276 leads to a ferry across Lake Powell closed because of low water
Jun 07 2021 - 2:28 pm
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![North Wash](../../images/roads/ut095-09.JPG)
Just beyond the intersection UT 95 curves left into North Wash draining Mt. Ellen (UT 95 follows the wash to its confluence with the Colorado River)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:30 pm
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![Entrada Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-10.jpg)
Entrada Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 2:33 pm
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![Fossilized Sand Dunes](../../images/roads/ut095-11.jpg)
Jurassic fossilized sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 2:34 pm
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![Entrada Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-12.jpg)
Entrada Sandstone (ancient cross-bedded sand dunes)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:36 pm
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![Moenkopi Formation](../../images/roads/ut095-13.JPG)
from bottom: Triassic Moenkopi and Chinle formations, Jurassic Wingate and Entrada sandstones
Jun 07 2021 - 2:39 am
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![Tafoni](../../images/roads/ut095-14.JPG)
Tafoni (common in all sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:45 pm
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![Hog Springs](../../images/roads/ut095-15.JPG)
Hog Springs Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
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![Hog Springs](../../images/roads/ut095-16.jpg)
Hog Springs at the head of the wash (perhaps on impermeable Chinle shales at the base of permeable Wingate-Entrada sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
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![Entrada-Wingate Cliffs](../../images/roads/ut095-17.JPG)
Entrada - Wingate sandstone cliff sandwiched between Jurassic Morrison and Triassic Chinle shales
Jun 07 2021 - 2:53 pm
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![Hanging Valley](../../images/roads/ut095-18.jpg)
Hanging valley on White Rim-Cedar Sandstone (note seepage along the entire valley floor)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:55 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-19.jpg)
Permian White Rim Sandstone below thin Triassic Chinle and Moenkopi shales and Navajo Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:02 pm
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![Glen Canyon NRA](../../images/roads/ut095-20.jpg)
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 3:00 pm
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![Red Rocks](../../images/roads/ut095-21.JPG)
Red rocks all around
Jun 07 2021 - 3:09 pm
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![North Wash](../../images/roads/ut095-22.JPG)
North Wash emptying into the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:16 pm
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![Colorado River](../../images/roads/ut095-23.jpg)
Telephoto of the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:17 pm
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![Confluence](../../images/roads/ut095-24.jpg)
Confluence of North Wash-foreground, Dirty Devil River-left, and Colorado River-background, all entreched about 100' into the White Rim Sandstone
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-25.jpg)
North Wash upstream stripping Moenkopi shales from White Rim Sandstone (enigmatic white band in the Moenkopi Formation)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-26.jpg)
Another view of stripped surface (paying no attention to slope angle is the enigma)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
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![UT 95](../../images/roads/ut095-27.JPG)
Utah 95 in red rock country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:27 pm
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![Henry Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-28.jpg)
Henry Mountains visible to the west
Jun 07 2021 - 3:28 pm
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![Lake Powell](../../images/roads/ut095-29.jpg)
Lake Powell is 138' below pool level covering the parking lot
Jun 07 2021 - 3:30 pm
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![Road Notch](../../images/roads/ut095-30.jpg)
Notch through the Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 3:32 pm
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![Colorado River](../../images/roads/ut095-31.JPG)
Parabolic arch bridge over the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:33 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-32.JPG)
White Rim Sandstone surface (Dirty Devil River cuts the 100' deep canyon in the middle of the surface)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:37 pm
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![Dirty Devil River](../../images/roads/ut095-33.JPG)
Dirty Devil River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:42 pm
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![Arch Supported Bridge](../../images/roads/ut095-34.JPG)
Arched below the pavement
Jun 07 2021 - 3:48 pm
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![Dirty Devil River](../../images/roads/ut095-35.jpg)
Dirty Devil River Canyon entrenched 100 feet in the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:46 pm
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![Hoodoo Weathering](../../images/roads/ut095-36.jpg)
Hoodoo weathering in ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 3:49 pm
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![Between Rivers](../../images/roads/ut095-37.jpg)
UT 95 between the Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers
Jun 07 2021 - 3:50 pm
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![Weathering](../../images/roads/ut095-38.jpg)
Weathering resembles a sitting dinosaur in dinosaur country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:52 pm
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![Moenkopi Formation](../../images/roads/ut095-39.jpg)
Red Moenkopi Formation Monuments
Jun 07 2021 - 3:55 pm
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![Colorado Valley](../../images/roads/ut095-40.jpg)
Colorado River entrenched 100 feet into the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone (Mesozoic section up to Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone in background)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:56 pm
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![Colorado River Bridge](../../images/roads/ut095-41.JPG)
Colorado River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:58 pm
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![Colorado River Bridge](../../images/roads/ut095-42.JPG)
Arched partially above the roadway
May 17 2013 - 3:59 pm
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![Weathered Cross Bedding](../../images/roads/ut095-43.jpg)
Weathered cross-bedding indicates ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:02 pm
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![Ancient Sand Dunes](../../images/roads/ut095-44.JPG)
Henry Mountains over ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:05 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-45.jpg)
Permian White Rim Sandstone forms a major stripped surface in this region
Jun 07 2021 - 4:10 pm
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![Moenkopi Formation](../../images/roads/ut095-46.jpg)
Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
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![Side Road](../../images/roads/ut095-47.jpg)
Road 3 miles to Lake Powell
Jun 07 2021 - 4:38 pm
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![Terrace Gravels](../../images/roads/ut095-48.JPG)
Colorado River terraces gravels
Jun 07 2021 - 4:34 pm
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![No Lake](../../images/roads/ut095-49.JPG)
No Lake Powell, about 140' below pool level
Jun 07 2021 - 4:31 pm
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![Turn Around](../../images/roads/ut095-50.JPG)
Turn around point
Jun 07 2021 - 4:36 pm
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![UT 95](../../images/roads/ut095-51.jpg)
Back to UT 95
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-52.jpg)
White Rim Sandstone surface (overlain by Moenkopi-Chinle slopes below Wingate-Navajo-Kayenta {Glen Canyon Group} and Entrada cliffs)
Jun 07 2021 - 4:49 pm
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![Henry Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-53.jpg)
Henry Mountains over Moenkopi shales
Jun 07 2021 - 4:52 pm
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![Jacobs Chair](../../images/roads/ut095-54.jpg)
Jacobs Chair (6,784')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:04 pm
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![The Cheesebox](../../images/roads/ut095-55.JPG)
The Cheesebox (6,318')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:24 pm
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![UT 275](../../images/roads/ut095-56.jpg)
UT 275 "Trail of the Ancients" to Natural Bridges National Monument
from NBNM Website
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-57.jpg)
White Rim Sandstone surface and about 100' entrenchment by the washes (narrow canyons to flush sediment from the area in sparse rains)
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
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![Weathered Scour](../../images/roads/ut095-58.jpg)
Telephoto of weathered scour
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
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![Natural Bridge](../../images/roads/ut095-59.JPG)
Natural Bridge
May 17 2013 - 6:26 pm
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![White Canyon](../../images/roads/ut095-60.JPG)
Telephoto of the White Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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![Deep Canyon](../../images/roads/ut095-61.JPG)
Deep Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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![Dry Watering Holes](../../images/roads/ut095-62.JPG)
Headward stream erosion (dry watering holes aligned in lieu of streams on sandstone surface perhaps becoming a canyon)
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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![One Way Road](../../images/roads/ut095-63.JPG)
One way loop road in the National Monument
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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![Golden Eagle](../../images/roads/ut095-64.jpg)
Gliding golden eagle checked us out
May 17 2013 - 6:29 pm
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![UT 261](../../images/roads/ut095-65.jpg)
UT 261: Valley of the Gods, Moki Dugway, and Cedar Mesa
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![Valley of the Gods](../../images/roads/ut095-66.jpg)
Valley of the Gods
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
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![Monument Valley](../../images/roads/ut095-67.jpg)
A glimpse of Monument Valley
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
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![UT 316](../../images/roads/ut095-68.jpg)
UT 316 a four mile jaunt and back to the Goosenecks of the San Juan River
May 18 2013 - 6:23 pm
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![Goosenecks](../../images/roads/ut095-69.jpg)
West Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:50 pm
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![Goosenecks](../../images/roads/ut095-70.jpg)
East Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:49 pm
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![Resistant Surfaces](../../images/roads/ut095-71.JPG)
River first then slope erosion polishes resistant sandstone surfaces
May 18 2013 - 6:52 pm
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![Monument Uplift](../../images/roads/ut095-72.JPG)
Back to UT 216, Valley of the Gods in front of eastern limb of Monument Uplift
May 23 2021 - 2:30 pm
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![Jurassic Cliffs](../../images/roads/ut095-73.JPG)
Approaching Permian White Rim and Cedar Mesa sandstone cliffs (unpaved Moki Dugway ascends the cliffs)
May 23 2021 - 2:43 pm
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![Pavement Ends](../../images/roads/ut095-74.jpg)
Pavement ends, start of Moki Dugway
May 23 2021 - 2:52 pm
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![Switchbacks](../../images/roads/ut095-75.JPG)
Switchbacks on Moki Dugway
May 18 2013 - 7:21 pm
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![White Rim Sandstone](../../images/roads/ut095-76.jpg)
On a switchback approaching White Rim Sandstone which caps the plateau beyond
May 23 2021 - 3:00 pm
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![Moki Dugway](../../images/roads/ut095-77.jpg)
Topographic map of the Moki Dugway
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![Monument Uplift](../../images/roads/ut095-78.jpg)
East limb of the Monument Uplift (Carizzo Mountains in Arizona in background)
May 23 2021 - 2:56 pm
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![Flat On Top](../../images/roads/ut095-79.JPG)
Bear Ears rising above surface of Cedar Mesa leading 20 miles back to UT 95
May 23 2021 - 3:06 pm
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![Salvation Knoll](../../images/roads/ut095-80.JPG)
Back to UT 95 over Salvation Knoll (salvation to lost party of pioneers when they could see landmark Abajo (Blue) Mountains in the background)
Jun 07 2021 - 5:55 pm
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![UT 95](../../images/roads/ut095-81.jpg)
UT 95 through the Comb Ridge Monocline (road cut through the Wingate-Entrada sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:01 pm
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![Comb Ridge](../../images/roads/ut095-82.jpg)
Different lighting on sections of Comb Ridge
Jun 07 2021 - 6:06 pm
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![Road Cut](../../images/roads/ut095-83.jpg)
Approaching the road cut through Wingate-Entrada sandstones
May 23 2021 - 5:14 pm
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![Road Cut](../../images/roads/ut095-84.jpg)
Road cut
May 23 2021 - 5:15 pm
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![Comb Ridge](../../images/roads/ut095-85.jpg)
Comb Ridge and view of UT 95 just driven
Jun 07 2021 - 6:13 pm
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![Dip Slope](../../images/roads/ut095-86.JPG)
East side of Comb Ridge (dip slope of Entrada Sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:17 pm
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![San Miguel Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-87.JPG)
San Miguel and San Juan Mountains
May 23 2021 - 6:03 pm
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![San Juan Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-88.JPG)
(from left): Lone Cone, San Miguel Mountains, San Juan Mountains, La Plata Mountains
May 23 2021 - 5:08 pm
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![US 191 S of Blanding](../../images/roads/ut095-89.JPG)
Tumbled block of Dakota Sandstone
May 23 2021 - 5:26 pm - 5:07 pm
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![Abajo Mountains](../../images/roads/ut095-90.JPG)
Abajo Mountains from the south end of UT 95
May 23 2021 - 6:06 pm
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![US 191 S of Blanding](../../images/roads/ut095-91.png)
South end of UT 95
US 191 4 miles south of Blanding