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Fisch on Tour

Sabbatical 2023 June to December in Western Canada and the US Leia mais
  • Into the Great Basin

    3 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    It was time to do the laundry today. I then visited an old train station Museum in the goldfields before leaving the Sierra Nevada region and heading east: over the White Mountains, where I took a look at the oldest living trees on earth, the Bristlecones, and then drove down from 10,000 ft to 4,000 ft in the Great Basin. Off to Utah!Leia mais

  • Cathedral Gorge State Park

    5 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    My first taste of the Red Rock Southwest - incredible formations of clay created by water. The area is a large valley bordered by clay walls that contain many slot canyons- see images. The walls are vertical, 3-5 m high. At the end of the valley s canyon. I hiked and biked for 3 hours this morningLeia mais

  • Zion NP

    6 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    I spent two days in Zion, biking into the canyon with the unbelievable mountains to the left, and to the right. Second day I hiked up to scouts overlook, 305 vertical meters on 2 km hike. Very amazing area, but very crowded with people. They get 20,000 people a day!Leia mais

  • Bryce Canyon NP

    8 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    I thought Zion was unbelievable , Bryce Canyon is even more unbelievable. It is so large, you go 50 steps into any direction and the perspective complete the changes, no matter if you’re on the rim or if you’re hiking down into the canyon, it is unbelievable. Sunny for a large part of the day, clouds in the afternoon, but the colors look beautiful even when it’s cloudy.Leia mais

  • Red Canyon

    9 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    I drive down to the far reaches of Bryce Canyon. After really good Pizza at the lodge, I then backtrack a short distance to Red Canyon, similar yet different. You will be seeing a lot of images of red rocks in the weeks to come !Leia mais

  • Rocks in many forms and colors

    11 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    After spending the morning in Kodachrome, biking the Panorama Trail, a short drive brings me to the Petrified Forest State Park in Escalante. Incredible, what kinds of colors the minerals created on the wood! After getting gas, propane and food, I spend the rest of the afternoon at the Escalante River: apart from incredible landscape, I hiked up to a ledge with ancient Indian petroglyphs.Leia mais

  • Capitol Reef NP Day 1

    12 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    This national park was named after a long and forbidding mountain range, that rose before early explorers, like a reef from the ocean floor. To me, it presented itself as a long row of red cliffs from the road, white domes on a first hike, and green valleys. More tomorrow!Leia mais

  • Mesa Verde NP

    18 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    I’m in Colorado, at the UNESCO wold heritage site preserving the largest concentration of houses of the Ancestral Pueblo people, ancestors of many South-Western indigenous peoples. Settled from about 550 to 1300, the cliff houses are most famous, but there is a lot more to see here.Leia mais

  • Cliff Palace & Durango

    19 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    After a guided tour to the famous Cliff Palace in Mess Verde in the morning, I drive through the beautiful landscape to Durango, the largest town in south west Colorado. Very nice place, nice downtown, great shops, great food. I end the evening in an Old West SaloonLeia mais

  • Hidden splendor

    22 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    I say goodbye to the Alpine areas of Colorado after a very coordinated close to the town of Telluride, and drive the “Unaweep Tabeguache Scenic & Historic Byway” aka Rt 141. A very little known, but unbelievably beautiful area. Hardly any villages or cars. Took a while to drive though.Leia mais

  • Colorado National Monument

    23 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos

    The mighty Colorado River and its tributaries have carved these amazing canyons. Fantastic looks from above down into the river valley and the cities of Fruita and Grand Junction. The desert bighorn sheep in the first picture was right next to my car, the poor thing had a lame left hind foot.Leia mais

  • Lost corner of Utah

    23 de outubro de 2023, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    I follow the Colorado river, great creator of canyons. On a short section with a very bad road, crossing from the interstate to the river canyon, I stumble upon the most forgotten almost-ghost town of the US. Cisco, Utah. The decline of the railroad and the construction of the interstate killed this little place. I loved it though. And should I mention, that the landscape in the canyon was incredible?Leia mais