Framedlight

We travelled through the small town of Escalante itself, another Mormon settlement,  and then we were driving through the wilderness area of Escalante National Monument. Again there were overlooks to see across vast distances, mainly at the head of dirt roads which lead into the interior of the Park.  The first of these was at the beginning of the 57 mile long Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, which follows the route taken by Mormon pioneers in 1879-80 to find a route across to the Colorado River. They managed to find the only gap in the otherwise impenetrable 400m cliffs that fringe Glen Canyon, and it took them 6 weeks to forge a route across using picks shovels and explosives. Finally they had to lower their wagons and animals  off from the cliff using block and tackle before building a raft to cross the river. We saw a rather lovely wooden caravan here, obviously made to match the canoe. Then it was short hop to the Head of the Rocks overlook, where we looked across th...