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The reward for the punishing, 1500-ft vertical-gain hike up to this vista was…this vista! Eating a picnic lunch and drinking all of a 2-liter Diet Dr Pepper brought here, I thoroughly soaked in the experience (and rested my sore legs) for 45 minutes, with deep convection building safely far to the north, and shallower cumuliform clouds overhead and to the south. This panoramic sweeps up and down the steep-walled Virgin River Valley, carved deeply along the southwest rim of the Colorado Plateau through massive sandstones. Most of this sandstone is the Jurassic Navajo formation, with layers of marvelous bedding and crossbedding leftover from its inland dune origins.
6 NNE Springdale UT (7 Aug 17) Looking N-E-S
37.2698, -112.9478