Cryptobiotic Soil

Newspaper Rock

Today was our last day in this area. Leslie mentioned today that you could probably spend 6 months here as there is so many neat things to do. We were at the south end of Canyonlands today and it is so different than the north end.

Cryptobiotic soil is neat stuff. It looks crusty and lumpy and black. It is soil that hold water and nutrients for the plants that surround it to keep them alive in the worse part of the heat. The more moisture the lumpier and blacker the soil gets. You can tell as the plants are larger and healthier in these spots.

Newspaper Rock is a neat spot. Les and I were thru here 8 yrs ago and bought some native jewellry from the Navajos and she and Yvonne helped them out again today. Tomorrow we are off to Camp Verde for 2 days and then to Casa Grande for 3 or 4. Till the next post Adios Amigos.