An unexpected meeting of a cub scout troop leads to a fun adventure on the rocks.
The lovely view from our place in a cave where we were hiding out from the rain.
Red Rock Canyon is a newly acquired part of the Colorado Springs Trails and Open Spaces system. It is the geological continuation of the Garden of the Gods, located a mere mile on the other side of the highway.
On the Soldier Pass trail outside Sedona, just below Castle Rock, is Devil's Kitchen, a huge sinkhole that' collapsed in 1888. It is 112 feet across and 65 feet deep.
A quarry was located at Red Rock Canyon in the late nineteenth century where this rock was cut and used as the building foundations of many of Colorado Springs' most historic buildings.
This area of Red Rock Canyon was the site of a reclaimed landfill.
The pond at the entrance into the canyon at Red Rock Canyon Open Space in Colorado Springs.
Rocks State Park is located in Jarrettsville, MD and there are great natural, dense wooded hiking trails, a wonderful waterfall, and a 190-foot rock outcrop called The King and Queen Seat. The movie 'Tuck Everlasting' was filmed in this park and features all of the aforementioned attributes to the area.
The waterfall (Kilgore Falls) in the Falling Branch section of the park is Maryland's second highest vertical drop waterfall.
Phase of the Moon on 9 September, 2006: waning gibbous with 94% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
Travel can be splendid. Exhilrating.