Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park and Factory Butte in mid-May, 2016

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Now on Hartnet Road, I'm completely out of view of Cathedral Valley, but there are still interesting rock formations
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The next few photos show one of the hazards of driving when the road is muddy!
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My guess is that this vehicle slid off the road here
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The terrain isn't quite as interesting here...
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...But now you can see the Henry Mountains in the distance.
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There's a little snow still on the distant mountains
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The Bentonite Hills.
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Bentonite clay is derived from volcanic ash.
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I spent a few minutes here looking for a geocache that had been found only once in the two years since it was set out. When I left, it had been found twice!
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This was the end of the road for me! I had to ride back around to the start. Fortunately there's a shortcut road that cut the distance by about 2/3.
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My camping spot. Nobody else was around.
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This flower was close to my camping spot - actually only a couple of feet away. It's lucky I didn't run over it!
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On the way to Escalante, it's obviously frozen overnight where these sprinklers were irrigating the field.
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