Ha Ho No Geh Canyon

After Monument Valley, we had two remaining nights before the workshop's start and decided to spend the first at either Coal Mine Canyon or its neighbor, Ha Ho No Geh Canyon. I had visited the latter in 2020 (gallery link). Unfortunately, we found new Navajo "No Trespassing" signs at Coal Mine's entrances (thanks, Covid), but we were still able to access the Hopi's Ha Ho No Geh. We explored all its surrounding rim roads and ended up camping back at my 2020 location, where we shot the sunset and sunrise.

For our last pre-workshop night, we explored a new location – the Smoky Mountain badlands area located in Glen Canyon, west of lower Lake Powell. Last year I had loved Erin Babnik's "Hallowed Ground" image (image link) that, after much map & Google Earth research, I believed was probably shot there. So, I was excited to check out this promising photogenic area, & also grade my sleuthing skills. I quickly verified that Smoky Mountain was the peak in Erin's shot, but I had a very difficult time determining Erin's exact vantage point. We broke out the drones for the first time on the trip and spent the evening and morning flying and shooting around the area...and determined Erin's shot location – it was clear that she was using a drone, which was news to me.

Later, it turned out that the workshop's first stop was at the immediately adjacent Smoky Hallows area, so I have included my Smoky Mountain badland images in the next Painted Deserts image gallery.

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