Craggy Rock Formation

Above the salt basin the ground rises into rocky knolls of broken, dark stone, scattered with sagebrush — harder country than the soft sandstone of Arches, and a different kind of rough.

Photographed June 2003. The jagged pile is backlit almost to silhouette against a pale sky, with dense sage and a worn path in the foreground. A craggy summit caught against the light — all edges.