RHH's photos with the keyword: loop

This was the Golden Canyon trail in Death Valley National Park. The peak is Manly Beacon and the trail we hiked up through Golden Canyon and back down through Gower Gulch is visible below the Beacon. There are some people on the trail and they add some scale to the scene. It was a very warm day and the trail was quite steep though not long.

Our first day in Death Valley National Park we hiked the Golden Canyon-Gower Gulch loop, not a long hike but steep in parts and it was a very warm day. The two people are my daughter and wife and the photo was taken towards the top of the trail where it opens up below Zabriskie Point.

I am posting two photos of Death Valley because we are headed there very early Monday morning. We'll go first to the Moab area of Utah and visit some of the parks there, Goblin Valley, Blue Valley, Arches and Canyonlands, and then go on to pick up our oldest daughter in Las Vegas and from there to Death Valley where we'll spend a week. The photo is from a loop hike up through Golden Canyon and back through Gower Gulch and shows the end of the trail as we exited Gower Gulch back into the valley. The Sierra Nevada is in the background across the valley. The hike is spectacular and goes to Zabriskie Point in the mountains on the east, if a side trail is followed from the top of the loop.

The formation is Cathedral Rock and the photo was taken from the Courthouse Butte Loop, a trail I hiked while we were in the Sedona, Arizona, area.

Taken along the Courthouse Butte loop near Sedona, Arizona. The plants in the foreground are Agaves and I do not know the name of the formation in the background.

This panorama was taken from Bell Rock and shows Courthouse Butte against a background of other peaks in the Sedona, Arizona, area.