Back in Capitol Reef National Park

The last time I was at Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah was close to a quarter century ago. At that time, we had “done” the major Utah National Parks and after zooming through Bryce, Zion, that particular park and Arches, we were totally “parked-out.”

We had seen rock in so many shapes, sizes and colors that we could no longer stand the sight of one single extra mineral body. There's so much rock one can take, it's heavy, massive and very hard to digest. For us it's about two or three days at the most.

All that makes me think of these hordes of tourist who see most of our National Parks in Utah over the course of ten days or so. They must be rocked out of their wits and probably need a strong medical treatment to get rid of all this extra mineral overload!