Great news for fans of the beautiful and awe-inspiring red-rock canyons of Southern Utah. We just received our 2012 Commercial Use Permit for Capitol Reef National Park. We have a variety of exciting canyoneering trips planned which include some of the best slot-canyons in the Southwest.
For those unfamiliar with the park, it is characterized by colorful sandstone formations, cliffs, canyons, ridges, buttes and monoliths. It’s most stunning geologic feature is a 100 mile long warp in the Earth’s crust known as the Waterpocket Fold. This 65 million year old fold is the largest exposed monocline in the North America. It is comprised of younger and older layers of the Earth’s crust which were folded over each other in an S-shape. This striking geologic feature was probably caused by the same collision of continental plates that created the Rocky Mountains. It has weathered and eroded over melinnea to expose a fascinating amalgam of brilliantly colored sandstone cliffs and canyons, gleaming white domes and contrasting layers of intricately shaped rock and sand.
