Hanging Gardens Hike

**Riverkilt** · 11th February 07, 02:45 PM

Page, Arizona is built on a mesa. Water seeps through the sandstone and comes out on the edges of the mesas. There's one spot that's cut back into the sandstone that's formed a hanging garden of ferns. Not too lush in the Wintertime, but my lady and I hiked back there this morning. Great views. Needed some better pics of my USA Kilts Ramsay casual so wore it.

I really like the Ramsay tartan for wearing to work, royal blue, black and white in the tartan. A different color presentation.

Was a drizzly day, but I got lucky and found a knife someone had dropped along the trail. Looked it up on the Internet and found its worth $220. An Emerson Commander.

On the trail, looking at Potato Hill.

Hiking the slick rock. Sandstone is very slippery from the tiny pieces of sand that the wind wears off. That's Boundary Butte on the far right, the dividing line for the Arizona Utah border.

Pleats in the wind. That's Castle Rock on the right. That's where some of the scenes in The Greatest Story Ever Told were filmed.

Here's a pic of part of the Hanging Gardens. The ferns come down from the overhead as well as the back wall. You can't see it in the pic but folks have made a small pool to collect the water that seeps from the sandstone so the wild critters have a place to come and drink.

Ron