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kreynard: Fake Tent Rocks, aka, Sculpture, Do Not Climb
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kreynard: Cliff
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kreynard: Beware of Snakes
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kreynard: What the cliffs really look like
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kreynard: Coming up to our first close encounter with a tent rock
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kreynard: The Canyon Trailhead
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kreynard: Looking up the canyon walls
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kreynard: Vegetation clinging to wherever it can cling
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kreynard: Tree roots - think there's an erosion problem?
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kreynard: My Trifecta: trees, rocks, sky
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kreynard: Tent Rock Cap
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kreynard: Sediments
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kreynard: Sedimentary layers
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kreynard: Dark canyon walls in the morning sun
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kreynard: Husband included for scale
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kreynard: Pointy, triangular things
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kreynard: The path was as wide as my foot in spots
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kreynard: Stripey Tent Rocks
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kreynard: Dead tree trunk, live tree
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kreynard: Striations
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kreynard: What's around the next bend
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kreynard: AGB taking the coolest photo ever!
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kreynard: Into the narrow bit
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kreynard: A small boulder blocks our path
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kreynard: Again, husband provided for perspective
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kreynard: Precariously perched on many of the tapering hoodoos are boulder caps that protect the softer pumice and tuff below
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kreynard: Tremendous explosions from the Jemez volcanic field spewed rock fragments
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kreynard: Cones!
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kreynard: How long until these wear away?
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kreynard: Flat top, pointy top