Seldom Seen Anderson
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Because of the tshirt and shorts weather we have been experiencing in Southwest Utah I couldnt pass up a holiday to go do some hiking. Our destination Yellow Knolls in Red Cliffs National Conservation Area. Rather than the short approach to Yellow Knolls we decided to take the Black Gulch trail, follow the wash down to the yellow knolls area, and loop back to the parking lot. The trails in this area are poorly marked (we never saw any signs for Black Gulch, in fact after looking at a map later we were not in black gulch at all! It was on the other side of the road) but fortunately it is pretty easy and straightforward to find your way to the knolls. We made a big circle around the southern end of the knolls and eventually found a trail after exploring around the sandstone.
Highlights included
1.the contrast of white sandstone with dark lava rock
2. A relatively little hiked area within 10 miles of St. George
3. Some neat sandstone formations that reminded me of parts of white pocket (on a much smaller scale)
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4. The checkerboard mesa-esque area of the knolls and there was a lot of it! Very cool!!
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