A precious gift brought by rain in the mountains.
My first experience seeing water flow in the Painted Desert.
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Thursday Mike and I hauled a friends vintage 1955 Spartan trailer to Flagstaff.
Saw a little sundog over the Painted Desert.
Drove towards a major storm approaching Mt Humphreys.
Flagstaff has a very fun oldtown where I bought gear for my upcoming trip on the Colorado River.
Had dinner in the funky Galaxy Diner.
Where some nice old cars were parked in the lot.
On the return drive Saturday we again drove through a storm passing Mt Humphreys.
It rained so hard even the Little Colorado River was flowing at Cameron.
Then the clouds broke up over the Painted Desert.
And the sun shone on the Colorado River at Marble Canyon.
But the clear sky didn’t last as we approached the Kaibab Plateau where home is.
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Layers of primarily mudstone along with some sandstone and claystone deposited about 200 million years ago eroded into badlands called by some Native Americans as a “land of sleeping rainbows.” Mudstones occur in shades of red, gray, brown, purple, tan, orange and pink. Sandstone is typically beige or cream colored yet can be stained by oxidized minerals like iron (red) and manganese (blue/grey) as can the claystone. Wind and water sculpt the landscape.
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