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Another name-less tower that in the area of Gem Canyon. Mark McCray took this photo on our trip.
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[ Post a Comment ]| nguy33 | cool | | 
Voted 10/10 | Nice work | | Posted Apr 17, 2004 5:21 pm |
| Klenke | cool cool | | 
Voted 10/10 | Exquisite. | | Posted Apr 17, 2004 8:14 pm |
| Aaron Johnson | Beautiful Picture | | 
Hasn't voted | Great light and composition. The fact that it's Utah really makes it easy to get an awesome picture, but good job anyway! | | Posted Apr 18, 2004 8:38 pm |
 | | Scott | You should like this one too | | 
Hasn't voted | here | | Posted Apr 20, 2004 12:39 am |
| Andy | Wow! | | 
Voted 10/10 | That's a great photo. Thanks for posting. | | Posted May 10, 2004 5:17 pm |
| Misha | Wow... | | 
Hasn't voted | ...what a stellar shot. Nice wide-angle coverage!!
It's time for me to start traveling outside of California :) | | Posted May 12, 2004 2:42 am |
| Deleted User | Nameless? | | Hasn't voted | Climb it and give it a name. Patterson's Peak?
Great shot Scott. | | Posted May 16, 2004 10:23 pm |
| Scott | Maybe not. | |
Hasn't voted | One of the things that makes the area so cool is that most of the towers and canyons are still un-named (and most are still un-climbed in this area, though a few such as Tomsich Butte and Family Butte have been climbed in the past few years). If I did name a peak, it would be after a natural feature on the peak rather than after myself. I still say leave them all un-named, so the people who see them can make up their own names with their own imagination and leave them un-named for the next person. | | Posted May 17, 2004 2:18 pm |
| dug | !! | | Hasn't voted | Thats a superb shot! | | Posted Aug 1, 2004 12:30 pm |
| charles | nice shot | | 
Voted 8/10 | thanks for that!
Cheers
Charles | | Posted Apr 3, 2006 3:37 pm |
| Lolli | petrified space ship | | 
Voted 10/10 | or one of the great ocean steamers... no, it looks definitely most like a space ship
:-))
| | Posted Apr 3, 2006 4:17 pm |
| markmay | Beautiful Shot | | 
Voted 10/10 | Makes me want to get out | | Posted Jun 21, 2006 10:56 pm |
| gjagiels | Tomsich Butte | | 
Voted 10/10 | Scott,
Nice Shot!
I'm sure this is Tomsich Butte, unless the maps are wrong. Take a look at my picture. Notice the cliffs to the top right and in yours. Tomsich Butte, in my picture, is on the left and behind that rise. My picture was taken a little less than a half a mile from the butte from the West-northwest. | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 6:44 pm |
| | gjagiels | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Voted 10/10 | I thought the butte was the one on the left? Tomsich Butte as shown on the maps is here. It's only shown as 5870 feet high, where as the sandstone cliffs in our pictures are around 6500 feet. | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 7:13 pm |
| | Scott | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Hasn't voted | The one on the left is definately not Tomsich Butte. I have climbed Tomsich Butte (this year), and it is made of Wingate and Navajo Sandstone. The one on the left is made of Moenkopi, a completely different kind of rock.
This isn't Tomsich Butte either, but will show the rock layers:
Photo
What you are seeing in the nameless tower on the left (in the "Another nameless tower" photo) is the red layer at the bottom of the photo in the link. The upper layer is what Tomsich Butte is made of.
If you know what direction your photo was taken, I could figure out which one this un-named one is. Do you remember? | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 7:29 pm |
| | gjagiels | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Voted 10/10 | Yes,
My photo was taken from the west-northwest, about a half a mile away. Right where you would first cross Muddy Creek enroute to Gem Canyon.
I'm just confused because as labeled on the topo Tomsich Butte is in the middle of that valley. The only thing in the middle of that valley is whats in your photo. Here is a photo of the same thing in your picture taken from the abandoned mine adjacent the peak. Another shot of what's in your picture and the Tomsich Butte trailhead. Sorry for all this confusion!
Where is Tomsich Butte? | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 7:47 pm |
| | Scott | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Hasn't voted | I'm just confused because as labeled on the topo Tomsich Butte is in the middle of that valley. The only thing in the middle of that valley is whats in your photo. Here is a photo of the same thing in your picture taken from the abandoned mine adjacent the peak.
Got it (I think). You are looking from the mines on Tomsich at Hondu Arch. The nameless red butte is the one marked on the topo map:
Here | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:43 pm |
| | gjagiels | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Voted 10/10 | Ok,
Looks good to me!
I knew that your picture was of that feature right by the Tomsich Butte trailhead. I figured that was Tomsich Butte. After looking at the elevation and size it didn't add up. Thanks for figuring that one out :-) | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:52 pm |
| | Scott | Re: Tomsich Butte | |
Hasn't voted | Yep, now I know which one the "nameless one" is too. I had forgotten. | | Posted Sep 20, 2006 8:56 pm |
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