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Title: Black Hole of the White Canyon
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Published: Sep 30, 2006
Author: tom007
Post Date: 2006-09-30 00:37:53 by tom007
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Views: 303
Comments: 23
A little intimidating, if you ask me. My family went close to here a few weeks ago. Did not see this, or really wanted to, after we entered the first part of the "Black Hole of the White Canyon". Not my photo. If you see a stream of water comming..... I would guess the water level at this point was close to twice the level of the debris.
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Nice. Ed Abbey country, I want to go back to that part of that state and see more of it. I was in the Utah National Guard and traveled there to beable to be in an S.F. Guard unit. That state wasn't at all like I expected it to be. I like remote parts of Utah, thanks for the posting.
I went to the 4 corners region shortly before I moved here, and we went to Mexican Hat in Utah, which was a beautiful area. There were canyons like I had never seen before, it was weird too, like being on another planet with the unusual colors and rock formations. We were driving around, and drove up to a high elavation, and the only way to get down on the other side was a road (is that called a switchback?) where on the sides it dropped down to what seemed like 20,000 ft. I was terrified as I'm scared of heights, and I had this fear the car would just tumble over the side. I almost got out and walked but instead I closed my eyes until we made it down to safety. I couldn't believe locals actually used that road; that was the scariest road I had ever been on in my life. The area was great though, we went horse-backriding througout the canyons, that was such a fun trip, except for riding down that road.
That was the Moki Dugway road off from the Goosenecks San Juan Overlook area. Goes up to the Muley Point, the best overlook of Monument Valley around, everyone's seen pictures taken from this point. You prolly didn't know it, but once on the top of that Mesa, while driving through rather unremarkable pinion pine scenery, you went right past dirt roads that lead to some of the most remarkable pre historic ruins in the US. The policy of the Park Service is just to not say anything about whats down there in those canyons, but if you seek it you will encounter them. Then the road Tees into Utah 95, the Bicentennial hwy, a rather amazing road in itself. If you turned left, west, towards Lake Powell, you followed White Canyon right past the Black Hole. The White Canyon to the east form the Natural Bridges Nat. Park. The area is one of my favorites, full of ruins and natural beauty that are unique in the world.
Oh no, I wish I had known that at the time as I find that kind of thing very interesting. You described the area we were at, and when we left Mexican Hat we went to a town called Moab where I bought some carved sheep at an art place. They had long silky kind of sheep hair on them. From Moab we drove into Colorado (I found some of those small towns in CO to be full of snobs, very odd). We had driven all over that region but my favorite was our stay at Mexican Hat, and the landscape there which was so amazing.
Then you turned east on U95 to Blanding. From there N to Moab. Do you remember going up through "The Notch", a portion of of a gigantic wall that was blasted so the the Hwy could pass?
#19. To: tom007 (#18)
No, I don't remember that.
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Then we hiked the swell slot at the San Rafal Swell.
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#12. To: Ferret Mike, tom007 (#9)
#14. To: Diana (#12)
We were driving around, and drove up to a high elavation, and the only way to get down on the other side was a road (is that called a switchback?) where on the sides it dropped down to what seemed like 20,000 ft. I was terrified as I'm scared of heights, and I had th
#17. To: tom007 (#14)
You prolly didn't know it, but once on the top of that Mesa, while driving through rather unremarkable pinion pine scenery, you went right past dirt roads that lead to some of the most remarkable pre historic ruins in the US.
#18. To: Diana (#17)
You described the area we were at, and when we left Mexican Hat we went to a town called Moab where I bou
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