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| In the Island of the Sky district of Canyonlands. |   Starting the Syncline Loop trail. |   Exposed wood looks like this after some time in the sun. | Random pictures of the trail down to our campsite. |     You can catch a glimpse of the Green River in the distance here. |   Eric had some blister problems. |   It seemed like it was a tradition to add a rock to this particular cairn, so we continued it. | In the riverbed were fresh green cottonwood trees. |   Indian paintbrush. |   Strange texture to these rocks. |   Claret cup cactus. | These are the fossilized remains of the rippled bottom of an ocean. |     The view from our campsite. | Eric examining an ant colony. |   Larkspur | Neat rocks |   Relaxing in camp. |   Eric cooking dinner | After dinner we took a stroll. Eric found a heart-shaped rock. |   We also found a survey post from 1954, when this area still belonged to the Bureau of Land Management. | This rock looked like a monkey head to me. |   There was a bit of sun around sunset, just enough for some great photos of some of the rocks that had fallen from the cliffs. | It was almost a full moon... | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||