 Issue #077 - Two Weeks in the Desert, Utah The directions to Road Canyon Road, in Utah’s Grand Gulch Wilderness Area, are in my Photograph America Newsletter #77. Road Canyon ruin is set deeply enough into its protective alcove that even at high noon on November 3rd, the sun was high enough in the sky to be completely off this ruin. The best time to arrive here is midmorning. Later in the afternoon, the sun drops lower in the western sky and strikes this canyon wall directly, spoiling the whole effect. This is not a good spot for a sunset. A cloudy or overcast day will probably illuminate the site adequately but you won’t have the warm light reflecting up and into the alcove from the slick rock below the ruin. A warming filter, or an adjustment to your digital camera’s white balance setting would be very useful for this location. Do not touch the ruins or remove anything. My GPS unit indicated a distance of 0.4 miles from the parking area to the bottom of Road Canyon and another 0.57 miles from the cairn at the bottom of the trail to the ruin. It took forty minutes to hike from the car to the ruin and fifty minutes for the uphill return. This hike took a total of three hours, including photography time.
You can find more information on Two Weeks in the Desert in Issue #77 Page 10 of Photograph America Newsletter. Comments are closed.
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