Road trip part 6 - phipps arch

On our last day in the Escalante, we headed up a side canyon to find phipps arch. The route took us into a box canyon and then up a series of slickrock bulges to an arch tucked into the rim of the canyon...








The nice thing about slickrock is that it's really pretty sticky...



The skinny white speck above the bush is PHred...



And this is the view from where he's standing...



That little black speck under the arch, right on the horizon? Yep, that's PHred again...


Late afternoon cumulous started to let loose (as usual) so we decided to get off the rock and head west...



A view down the drainage we descended...


That's me...

this is the sixth post in a series on the canyon country road trip.
Up next - Zion, Nevada basin & Range country, and ancient bristlecone pines.