Utah Places: Dead Horse Point

Another of the easy to access places that you ought to go to anyway, its a sight unparalelled anyplace on earth. The world cannot offer such spectacular sights any other place. The desolation and loneliness that must have reigned her in history are palpable. It is very easy to imagine yourself in this land stranded without a sip of water, far above the rivers flowing so inaccesable to one without easy acess. Water was life for the settlers and pioneers. They travelled this dry land without enough at their peril. And many paid for it dearly.

Another visible reminer is the nearby uranium tailings pond far below in one of the canyons. It is a sober rreminder of the cost of the arms race, and a technology escalation that has cost us, and taken this region through bust and boom develoments that continue trough this day. Worth informing yourself about while witnessing this grim havoc from the past.