Slickrock Trail, Canyonlands

[Jim Dockery]

I got this panorama the first year my wife and I retired after 35 years of teaching. We had been waiting until then to get down to southern Utah in the fall and finally made it for a month long trip in our van. We arrived at the Needles district in the afternoon and were lucky to find a campsite, then hustled over to this easy loop trail for an evening walk. We only saw one other couple heading out as we were going in. I love this picture, remembering the feeling of freedom and peace that we felt, our new lives spreading out before us like the open desert.

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• Jim Dockery
• Feb 19, 2018

 

[AlanLichty]

That feeling of solitude is something that is increasingly more difficult to find anymore. That area is a great place to be if you do find it....

 

[JimFox]

Hey Jim,

That's a nice pano of that area. And that's a nice remembrance of your chapter of your life. And Utah can be an area where solitude can still be found, I know I enjoy it too when I find it.

 

[Jeffrey]

Nice image Jim. I remember the Slickrock Trail being a mecca for mountain bikers. In 1990 I finally got there with a friend and rode the entire route. I don't think it was a hiking area, and it was a lot of up and down over smooth rocks and obstacles of all sorts. We were going to camp that night, but the ride kicked our asses and we checked into a motel.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Jeffrey, you must be referring to the other Sickrock trail near Moab (which I really want to mt. bike someday). This one is hiker only in Canyonlands NP.

 

[Rick Schump]

Great memory, I would love to have such memories attached to any of my shots.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I also love Canyonlands and yes, it is still possible to find solitude in the right places.