PerchPoints

Collection · 6 records

Weathered Country

Places made legible by erosion: falls, dunes, hoodoos, badlands, slots, and cracked ground.

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Wind-shaped dunes beneath the Sangre de Cristo mountains and a building storm 01
San Luis Valley · Colorado Area only

Great Sand Dunes

A landscape where scale keeps changing: sand in the foreground, a mountain wall beyond, and weather moving over both.

DunesAlpine edgeWeather
A tall desert waterfall descending over a pale alcove into a shaded pool 02
Grand Staircase country · Utah Approximate

Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail

Water transforms the scale and sound of a sandstone alcove, making the arrival feel distinct from the country around it.

WaterAlcoveCanyon
Orange hoodoos, juniper, and a sunlit trail beneath a clear blue sky 03
Bryce Canyon country · Utah Approximate

Fairyland Loop Trail

The route moves among formations rather than observing them only from the rim, changing spectacle into spatial experience.

HoodoosForest edgeTrail
A narrow rose-colored sandstone passage opening toward blue sky 04
East Zion country · Utah Approximate

Diana's Throne Trail

A close, textural counterpoint to the wide overlooks elsewhere in the collection.

SlotSandstoneFiltered light
Mineral-colored hills beneath broken clouds in Death Valley 05
Death Valley · California Exact

Artist's Palette

A public stop where geology reads immediately through color, texture, and the absence of vegetation.

BadlandsMineral colorRoadside
A single dry stem standing in cracked earth beneath a pale desert slope 06
Death Valley · California Exact

Ubehebe Crater

A stark landscape where small foreground details carry the scale and severity of the basin around them.

Volcanic basinDry lakeTexture