Capitol Reef Side Trip

On the 21st we took a day trip to Capitol Reef along rt 12 a Scenic Byway of Utah. Much of it winds through Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument along with some National Forests. Quite pretty territory all around. Panorama from viewpoint on Rt 12 overlooking Escalante. Capitol Reef was mostly a scenic drive, including two dirt road / washes you could drive all the way down. The farther one Capitol Gorge was quite interesting, especially in a Ford Focus. The petroglyphs were also interesting. I didn't hike at all in Capitol Reef due to tiny little flies (and a newly scratched up shin from a slide at an overlook, the back of me knee hurt, so I decided to leave it alone.) This was only our first encounter with these little beasts. The next day we discovered them infesting all the campsites at Arches too. And the little buggers bite hard. We consequently spent a lot of time in Moab during the day. I have a few hundred more images to work through.