This is a cliff wall on the border of Colorado National Monument viewed from outside the park. It is typical of the surroundings.
This is another photo of Colorado National Monument from within the park. At this early hour, the rockfaces were very colorful.
This was taken at Great Basin National Park. in Nevada. The high point in the background is Wheeler Peak which is the highest point in the Snake Range. There is very little surface water in the mountains and this small lake was certainly a rarity.
This is the typical size of a stream in Great Basin National Park. I only saw one other stream and it vanished into a hillside after I followed it for a few hundred meters.
The is the view from the top of Wheeler Peak (13063ft=3982m). It looks approximately north into the rest of the Snake Range in Nevada and perhaps into parts of Utah. Two lakes are visible in the image (a greenish one on the lower left and an aquamarine one in the lower center). The one on the left is the one in the earlier photo. The hike to the top is 8 miles round trip. It is very easy at the beginning but the last mile is pretty steep. I reached the top at about 8 am which helped me avoid any hot Sun on the way up.
This is also at Great Basin National Park. It is inside Lehman Caves which is where most of the tourists go when they visit the park. It is just a typical photo of the cave's formations.
This is a photo of Deadman's Creek in the Snake Range north of Great Basin National Park. Although the national park gets many visitors, the section of the Snake Range outside the park (and on the other side of US 50) is rarely visited. This creek is a side canyon in much larger Smith Creek Canyon.
This picture was taken in the Deep Creek Mountains of northwest Utah. They are slightly north of the Snake Range and very isolated. The high point (Mount Ibapah) reaches 8000 feet above the surrounding desert. I only explored the beginning of Indian Farm Creek Canyon. It doesn't really have a trail but it is quite pretty. The rocks here are very white and that is shown in the photo above. There was a lot of good rock scrambling in the area.