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Panorama-Big Bear Geyser

Posted on 07 September 2008

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Trail Name:
Panorama-Big Bear Geyser

Summary:
A desert hike past stone pillars and petrified geysers to a high point with far-reaching views of .

Trail Description
is on the outer edge of the newly formed Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a remote area of desert and canyons carved into the Vermilion, White, Grey and Pink Cliffs of southern . Kodachrome received its unusual name in 1948 from the National Geographic Society who, inspired by the Park’s photographic features, suggested it be named after the color film. This is the State Park’s longest trail, a rough figure-of-eight combining the loops of the Panorama and Big Bear Geyser Trails, with several short spurs to interesting formations and hidden caves.

You soon reach the first formations - red stone pillars of Entrada sandstone that resemble the ruins of an ancient city. Pass the distinctive spire known as Ballerina Slipper and continue on, ta

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