The hoodoos of Bryce Canyon have to be seen to be believed – difficult to describe!
Hoodoos differ from pinnacles or spires with their Intricate shapes formed by erosion of layers of rock of different types.
Hoodoos are also called tent rocks, fairy chimneys and earth chimneys. Which is your favourite name?
These photos are all the same vista taken with wide angle to zoom at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, U.S.A.
Love the HooDoos. But I never knew they were also called other names. We loved our stay there and I still feel this is an amazing place here on earth! Great shots! And you got snow too, just like us!
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It’s hard to take a bad picture there. Everywhere you look is astonishing. I didn’t know about the other names until this week when I did a little background reading!
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This does look quite something. Must agree,….I would have no way to describe it either. I bet it is even more impressive in person. Thinking I’m going with earth chimney…..can’t get into the whole hoodoo thing….
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Hoo doo you think you are? Haha. 😀 They are all apt names.
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I love this place! We were there for a very brief visit. Booked a campsite (we had rented a van), drove up to the highest point, taking pictures all the way up. On the way down, it started snowing heavily, blizzard actually. We passed our campspot, and kept going in time to get the last room at the nearest motel. (Hubby said if I wanted to go driving in a blizzard, I could have stayed home in Canada). Next day we had glorious sunshine, went for a hike. We had summer and winter pictures all within 24 hours. Thanks for reminding me. I love your pictures!
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Thanks! You must have some great pictures of the park. Summer and winter. I read your comment out to my hubby. We laughed about what your hubby said about staying home in Canada. Bet you’re glad you hung around! 😀
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Absolutely! 🙂
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I like the name hoodoos – they seem too gritty to be fairy chimneys somehow…
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I think you could house a lot of fairies in just one hoodoo. Do you think they’d be unhappy there? Shall we send them all back to Disneyland?
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so beautiful
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Thank you. Like all the National Parks in their own way.
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Gorgeous photos. The snow really is like an exclamation mark on the red rock. We have hoodoos here too. Want to come and take photos? 🙂
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I start my cross-country camping trip Monday. Bryce Canyon is on the list as well as any and every other canyon in the west. In answer to your question, earth chimney is my favorite because that’s pretty much what it is. 🙂
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You must have a very long list! Have a great time! Safe journey. How long are your travelling for?
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At this time, until I decided to come back. Of course, I might find exactly where I need to by while roaming. Excited, to say the least!. Have a great day!
Sherri
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Good luck to you. Happy searching!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Bryce is indeed beautiful and photos never seem to due it justice…. majestic 🙂
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Like the Grand Canyon and many other huge vistas we enjoy in the States, there’s nothing like seeing with your own eyes!
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One of my favourite places, Carol! We are very fortunate to have this so close (relatively) to our home in Vegas.
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A mere 250 miles. That’s nothing in our big country. I guess you’ve been. Many times?Are you resting?
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I’ve been twice, but that was before the hiking bug bit. I need to get back and really explore the area in the way that hiking allows for.
Resting? Well, if you consider flying from Toronto to Atlanta 6 days post-op for a stressful 3 days of business to be resting, then, absolutely! I’m resting. 🙂
Actually, the trip was great – no complications, and I had a relatively restful weekend to recuperate.
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We loved hiking among the hoodoos in Bryce. Does it make you homesick for the states yet?
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I’m loving it here LuAnn. Went to a tulip festival today. Photos are coming. I’m very much enjoying y’alls’ hikes in beautiful scenery while I sit with my feet up though!
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Wonderful news Carol!
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Just had a hike around for he estate. There are flowering trees and shrubs and bulbs and spring flowers everywhere. So pretty!
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when in that area again check out cedar breaks netional monument jest south of there on the way to zion is incredible bout the same but ya cant walk down into it but is specatular viewpoints 🙂 travel safe keep da sunny side up Q 😎
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I’ve had to visit Cedar Breaks via Google images as we are now in England. What a shame we missed it.
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yes is very spectacular,,,also well u can check out vids on u tube werld is very kewl place by there Zion canyon is awesome place to hang out.sunny side up in england now 2 U 🙂 Q
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Been to Zion! Ticked that one off the list. Lots to explore in the UK, France and Spain now.
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right on right on be safe 😎
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Gorgeous!! Yet another place to add to my long list of must-see trips. Hoodoo is such an odd name … now fairy chimney gets my attention 😉
I like the idea of hiking down and wandering among them. Problem is of course … hiking back up 😉
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Fit bird like you? No problem! Put it on the list!
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This ‘fit’ bird is carrying around too much extra plumage to scamper lightly up any cliffs 😉
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I love the image of you in your plumage. You could fly up those cliffs!
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Now that would be a sight!
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I’ve seen so many gorgeous photos of that place – I must visit. I like the name Hoodoos. It adds some mystery to the beauty.
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You must Lyle. You would take beautiful photos there. And the hoodoos will hold still for you!
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That’s a bonus
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The pictures are beautiful with snow capped chimneys. All those words are new to me but glad to know them all.
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The word hoodoo makes the place all the more intriguing doesn’t it?
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Sure it does!
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Breathtaking landscape! Stunning photos
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It is an amazing place!
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It’s a must see!
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Have you been or is it on your list?
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Always one of our favorite places, especially to hike down into the canyon and wander among the magical formations. I like fairy chimneys, of course!
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I hadn’t heard of that expression until recently had you? I think I need to go back and scrutinise them in light of their new name! Himself had a bad knee when we visited and we didn’t hike. Sounds like we missed quite the experience.
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Of course, “Fairy chimneys.” 🙂
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I think all us girlies have to go for that one.
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I think one of the early settlers spoke my favorite quote: “…a heck of a place to lose a cow!” 😉
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Brilliant! Isn’t it just? I can’t imagine traversing a place like that.
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We call them hoodoos as well. A word I learned after I got to Canada:) It is a fascinating landscape, something out of this earth!
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Where else have you seen them?
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They have them in Drumheller in Alberta, but the numbers can’t compare to Bryce Canyon:)
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Where did you find these?… fascinating. .
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Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah in the southwest of the U.S.:
http://www.nps.gov/brca/index.htm
http://www.brycecanyon.com/
Try Google images as well Bulldog. The photos are just mental!
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I like ‘fairy chimneys’ I also like the legend of the hoodoos:
“Before there were any Indians the Legend people, To-When-an-ung-wa, lived in that place. There were so many of them. They were of many kinds – birds, animals, lizards and such things – but they looked like people…
For some reason the Legend People in that place were bad. Because they were bad Coyote turned them into rocks; some standing in rows, some sitting down, some holding onto others. You can see their faces with paint on them just as they were before they became rocks…”
~ a Paiute Indian Legend
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Nice one Jude! Hadn’t heard that one before. I like fairy chimneys too, but you might have guessed that.
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Amazing… 🙂
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Thanks very much. It certainly was. Took our breath away!
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this is mind blowing !!!! thank you
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No, thank you!
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no worries stay groovy
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