Moab Rock Formation

The country around Moab is laced with slickrock benches and craggy knolls — the kind of ground you cross on foot between the named sights, with weather building overhead.

Photographed June 2003. A hiker walks up the slickrock at left, giving scale to a dark, pointed knoll under a big cloudy sky. More a moment on the trail than a study of a formation — the West as you actually move through it.