Not so many pictures this time; it’s hard to show the perspective of just how deep this is. This is the Painted Wall. It was formed more than a billion years ago when molten rock was squeezed into fractures of existing rock and then hardened.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
The Black Canyon and then on to Sylvan Lake State Park a few miles from Vail. The Gunnison River has cut a canyon more than twice as deep as the Empire State Bldg is high. The water force varies from 5,000 to more than 12,000 cubic feet per second. A good way to picture that is to picture a basketball (roughly a cubic foot) being thrown past you every second. Now picture 12,000 of them!
Not so many pictures this time; it’s hard to show the perspective of just how deep this is. This is the Painted Wall. It was formed more than a billion years ago when molten rock was squeezed into fractures of existing rock and then hardened.
Not so many pictures this time; it’s hard to show the perspective of just how deep this is. This is the Painted Wall. It was formed more than a billion years ago when molten rock was squeezed into fractures of existing rock and then hardened.
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