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Bryce Canyon and the Grand Staircase Escalante Photo Workshop Tour

Posted by: Greg Clure

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Bryce Canyon and the Grand Staircase Escalante Photo Workshop Tour

May 2 - 8, 2013 • $799 Full Tour • $459 Half Segment Tour

Most of Utah lies on a plateau higher than 4,000 feet above sea level. The geology of this region takes on an amazing variety of shapes and colors. Elevations rise and fall dramatically in the shape of mountains, buttes, and plateaus, the highest reaching over 13,000 feet! Within this varied landscape are hidden treasures, numerous National and State Parks, Recreation Areas and National Monuments as well as many wilderness areas. This photo tour features two of those stunningly photogenic locations, Bryce Canyon National Park and the northern section of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. We will also take a few side trips to several of the local state parks in the area as well. The first half of the week we will be based in Bryce Canyon City and we will concentrate on photographing Bryce Canyon. We plan to visit all the major view points of the main amphitheater including Sunrise and Sunset Viewpoints, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point as well as points north along the main access road to Yovimpai and Rainbow Points and the many stops in between. We will also go on a few short hikes into the heart of the amphitheater along the Navajo and Queen’s Garden Trails as well as the Fairyland Trail. Outside the main park we will take a short hike to Mossy Cave and the short spur trail to a perennial waterfall among the red spires. We will have a full moon while in Bryce Canyon so we will try our hand at some moonlight and night photography assuming we have clear skies. Time permitting we will also visit Red Canyon which is often referred to as Bryce’s little brother, but offers some different formations and most notably more intense reds than can be found in Bryce. That concludes a busy first part of the week as we now relocate about an hour to the east to the town of Escalante. From here we will explore the many slot canyons, hoodoos, arches and waterfalls of the Escalante River drainage in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Highlights include trips to Devil’s Garden, Zebra and Tunnel Slot Canyons, Neon Canyon, the narrows of the Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch, Peek-a-Boo and Spooky Slot Canyons, Calf Creek Falls, the Hundred Handprints pictograph panel, Hell’s Backbone Road with dramatic views of the Death Hollow Wilderness and the Burr Trail. Time permitting we will take in a few local state parks including Kodachrome Basin, Escalante Petrified Forest and Anasazi State Parks. It sounds like a lot, and it is, but we will be going from before sunrise to well past sunset in order to take it all in and capture some of the most unusual and varied landscapes of Southern Utah. Join me for an image packed adventure through Bryce Canyon and the Grand Staircase Escalante. This 7 day photo tour is available in its entirety at a discounted rate or you may purchase either 3.5 day segment.

Location

Bryce Canyon National Park And

Grand Staircase Escalante NM

Bryce Canyon City/Escalante, Utah

Dates

May 2nd, 2013 (Thursday)

Registration Information

Registration Required: $1,299

Event Coordinator

Greg Clure

Master Photographer

greg.clure - at - gmail.com