RHH's photos with the keyword: murphy point

I believe this formation is known as the Turk's Head. It was photographed from Murphy Point in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park.

Taken from Murphy Point in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park, the formation in the distance is Candlestick Tower and the white-rimmed canyon that through which the Green River Runs.

As I mentioned in my last posts, we celebrated our 48th anniversary this past Sunday. Here we are in Canyonlands National Park camped at Murphy Point after backpacking in earlier in the day, We are wondering whether the storms moving through the area were going to affect our plans to sleep under the stars, since our daughter, who took the photo, had the tent. We had a few drops of rain, but mostly wind and survived the night, though our sleeping bags were covered with sand when we awoke next morning.

When backpacking in Canyonlands National Park, the Island in the Sky District, this is where we spent the night. It was a windy night with some rain moving through and my wife and I slept under the stars, but we survived and did some hiking down into Murphy Basin the next day.

Here is the view from Murphy Point in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. We were camped at the point in order to do some hiking the next day, but had to contend with wind, some rain and storms moving through the area.

One of our hikes in the Island of the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park took us down this steep cliff. We dropped nearly 1000 feet (300 m) in less than a mile (1.5 km) and then, of course, when finished with our hike had to climb up again. The trail was the Murphy Trail which started on the mesa above and dropped down into Murphy Basin. The photo shows the area we descended though the trail is not itself visible.

The Murphy Trail, one of our hikes in Canyonlands National Park, descended this cliff alongside and sometimes on the smooth, water-worn area visible in the lower part of the photo. We had backpacked to Murphy Point on the rim and then hiked to another area of the rim and were beginning our descent when I took this photo.

This was the view from our campsite in the Island of the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. We had backpacked in to Murphy Point and day-hiked down to the basin below. That was another grueling descent of 1600 feet (488 m) over one mile (1.6 km). Back up was even more difficult! We had a lot of wind during the night, though very little rain, and my wife and I, sleeping under the stars (our daughter had the tent) were covered with dust in the morning.