This morning, we drove this loop. Wow.
Castle Valley
The Rectory is a 6,565-ft (2,001 m) sandstone summit in Grand County of Utah, United States. The Rectory is located at Castle Valley, Utah, near the city of Moab. The Rectory is a thin 200 feet (61 m) wide, and 1,000 feet (305 m) long north-to-south butte with 200 ft vertical Wingate Sandstone walls tower standing on a 1,000 foot Moenkopi-Chinle base. Precipitation runoff from The Rectory drains into the nearby Colorado River. The nearest higher peak is Castleton Tower, 0.35 miles (0.56 km) to the south. Priest and Nuns are towers immediately north and part of The Rectory. Further northwest along the connecting ridge is The Convent, with a rock tower called Sister Superior between the two.
Mathew's raft put-in point.
Most of the arches in Castle Valley are of the Wingate, Navajo, and Entrada formations from the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods. The most famous buttes and spire such are the Priest and Nuns, Castle Rock, and Castleston Rock are formed of Windgate Sandstone.
High river.
Driftwood from even higher river.
Purple mountains. Manganese in the rocks. Manganese in the plants. Snow for contrast.
From above.
Winter!
Spring has sprung green.
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