{"id":340,"date":"2010-02-06T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:30:54","slug":"across-the-mountains-to-bryce-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/06\/across-the-mountains-to-bryce-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the mountains to Bryce Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, January 2, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

I set out from Moab to drive through the mountains to the parks in southwest Utah. Highway 12 in particular is reputed to be very beautiful for its mountain scenery, but I took other smaller highways and byways as well.<\/p>\n

It was another bright blue day, this time with less fog. The route went through many different elevations and so the amount of snow changed quite a bit from almost none to quite snowy. The scenery itself varied from fairly flat desert to amazing rock formations of sandstone, to high mountains covered in pines.<\/p>\n

I took an interesting side trip at Capitol Reef National Park. The so-called reef is a long very steep cliff formed by a massive geological shift that pushed it up as a barrier making it very hard for early settlers to cross. The road follows one of the few breaks in the reef along a river where Mormons settled and planted numerous fruit trees.<\/p>\n

Towards the late afternoon I arrived at Bryce Canyon National Park, a fairly high park known for its amphitheater of amazing hoodoos, which at this time of year are dusted with patches of snow. I walked along a snowy trail by the edge of the rim photographing the hoodoos as the sunset.<\/p>\n

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A late winter afternoon, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah - \u00a9 Richard McGuire<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bryce Canyon, Utah, at sunset - \u00a9 Richard McGuire<\/p><\/div>\n

I wanted to end the day in a good location to visit Zion National Park the following day, but there was no cheap accommodation in the immediate area, so I drove across the mountains to Cedar City to spend the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, January 2, 2010 I set out from Moab to drive through the mountains to the parks in southwest Utah. Highway 12 in particular is reputed to be very beautiful for its mountain scenery, but I took other smaller highways and byways as well. It was another bright blue day, this time with less fog. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-southwest-united-states","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}