
Frosted Gingerbread -- Snow-Covered Landscape in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

by Darin Volpe
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Frosted Gingerbread -- Snow-Covered Landscape in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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Darin Volpe
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Late winter is a great time to visit Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah! The white snow covers the orange terrain like frosting on a gingerbread landscape. Doesn't it look just yummy!
While they look like mountain formations, the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon are what's left after erosion has done its work on the layers of rock of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. It's part of the formation known as the Grand Staircase, which stretches from the south of Utah to northern Arizona.
Bryce Canyon isn't a canyon but a set of natural amphitheaters, the hoodoos formed by ice and wind erosion. It sits at the top level of The Grand Staircase formation, which has eroded away in layers across southern Utah to the depths of the Grand Canyon, revealing almost 2-billion years of geologic history.
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December 20th, 2020
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Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Darin – your unusual pattern in nature scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2021 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.