...with the outdoor bug! (So one of the games we played during this most recent trip was Clue and I have the who-done-it verbiage on the brain.) Anyway, the WHOLE family (and not just the sisters) was in Flaming Gorge for a long weekend in early June and it was a lovely break from Georgia humidity. There was a ton of fascinating geological history from Vernal to the gorge as we passed through about a billion years of the earth's upheavals in about 30 minutes of driving. I am not so much a rock guru, but the changing rock strata was manifest through a constantly evolving plant palette. The changing ecosystems demonstrate the changing elevation and underlying rock and supporting soil that exist in a given place. For example, in quick succession we moved from an alpine community (short shrubs, flowering plants, grasses, mosses) to a subalpine community (Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir), to a Douglas-fir community, and so on. FABULOUS scenery! But, as it turns out, that was only the beginning...the Red Canyon Overlook was even more amazing, with its red rock cliff face and clear blue-green water--a very striking contrast. The weekend was filled with great vistas and fun hikes and wide open spaces, and more great scenery, especially along our rafting course down the Green River. 
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I love that you fling about words like strata and subalpine and know exactly what you're talking about.
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