The Maze in the Canyon Lands National Park - 1998
In 1998, I joined a group of my biking buddies for a five day/four night biking trip to the Maze in the Canyon Lands National Park, led by the Kaibab Mountain/Desert Tour company. They provided a fully supported tour -- they carried our gear in a four-wheel support vehicle from camp site to camp site, cooked the meals and met us on the trail for lunch. Our responsibility was to put up our tent in the evening, take it down in the morning, and pack up our gear to be transported to the next campsite.
The Canyon Lands is a land of red rock canyons, mesas, towers, and vistas. The Maze is one of the most remote and difficult to access areas of the Canyon Lands and consists of interwoven deep red canyons and towering spires.
My camera in 1998 was an Olympus OM-2n, an analog film camera with a set of lenses. I took color slides of the trip which had to be scanned to provide a digital negative which was then edited in Lightroom Classic.
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Biking to the Maze
The night before our ride, there was an enormous thunderstorm with a torrential downpour and flash flooding in the desert. This necessitated a change in route. The original rout had us enter the Park in the north and bike to the Maze, spend a day in the Maze. The northern entrance was closed due to the deluge, so we entered from the south, biked two days to the Maze and then returned via the southern route. {more pictures}
The Maze
We spent a day hiking in the Maze which is accessible only by foot. It was an arduous trek but the beauty of the canyons and the Anasazi pictographs made it very worthwhile. {more pictures}
Biking from the Maze
There were two days of biking to get back to our starting point. We were then shuttled to Green River, Utah and drove our van back to Salt Lake City to fly home. {more pictures}