My biggest concern is that by isolating the mountain from the rest of the desert to the south you've created (as others noted) an island. Newly isolated islands suffer localized extinctions pretty quickly after becoming insular. Faunal diversity is reduced. Larger islands suffer fewer extinctions th...

Not all the opposition is from rafters either. Many of the Navajo families that live near the rim in the Gap/Bodaway chapter are opposed to the plan as well.

Thanks for straightening that up cindyl!

End of the road at the Paria townsite, off the road on Buckskin Mountain, above the rim of Long Canyon on the way to Cobra Arch...

I just realized that the guy who buried the "treasure" is the infamous Forrest Fenn, antiquities dealer with a less than stellar reputation.

Grand Gulch. 50-some miles of main canyon and so much to explore.

Yeah, they've been everywhere below Lake Powell but Glen Canyon has had a very strong and active interdiction effort. This is a pretty big blow to containing this invasive species to the Lower Basin. It also hits my wife pretty hard - her Master's thesis that she is finishing up is about exactly thi...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56068 ... l.html.csp
Quagga Mussel adults confirmed (and removed) from Lake Powell at Wahweap. Coupled with a positive DNA hit from Penstock 4 late last year it seems like they are established in the lake.

Beat me to it. Summary if you don't want to read: 22 year old man misjudged the length of rope needed to make a rope swing at Corona Arch near Moab.
Video of what he was trying to do here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B36Lr0U ... r_embedded

Cool!

However, there are Cairns that are very useful and are put there for a purpose, such as lack of a defined Trail....Peak 3004 Loop is a perfect example. The Trail is virtually non-existent around the back side and if you're a novice like me that had no idea where I was at the time, it really helped ...

While were all ranting again, how bout them cairn builders?? No ones talked about the trace they leave. Personally im not for them, less so than a properly desposed of apple core ill never find. That's why I'm a cairn kicker. I kick cairns of all shapes and sizes if they are useless. Some are usefu...

Looked last night and got nothing. My wife got home from the hospital tonight so I was too busy getting stuff set up to go out into the desert and look. There'd probably be a pretty good picture from Horseshoe Bend of this comet, I'd suspect.

Yeah, they only go on for a little bit. Catch them while you can!

The wind right now is pretty wild. Small trees have been damaged and high-velocity tumbleweeds are about.

Thunder and lightning this AM - frightened some of my students. Windy and dark but no rain at the moment now.

I have yet to have a problem with stench clinging to a "sport-active shirt" that I own. I've had two now for years (bought them in 2008 or 2009). Yes, they still fit and no, they don't smell. They are my most common backpacking shirts and I haven't had one issue yet with them. I just bough...

More updates:
http://arizonageology.blogspot.com/2013 ... nical.html

Congrats Jake!
@cactuscat: Count me among the former Canyon residents from my time with the Peregrine Fund.

They might consider paving the route through The Gap and up through Coppermine and Le'Chee.