Hunts Mesa Panorama
by Inge Johnsson
Title
Hunts Mesa Panorama
Artist
Inge Johnsson
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture, Watermark Not On Actual Print
Description
First light over Monument Valley from atop Hunts Mesa
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Hunts Mesa is a rock formation located in Monument Valley, just south of the border between Utah and Arizona in the United States and just west of the border between Arizona's Navajo County and Apache County. It is one of two popular interior destinations in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park for tourists to experience panoramic views of the popular sandstone formations from a distance. The other is Mystery Valley. A Navajo guide is required to hike to either.
Hunts Mesa forms the southeastern edge of Monument Valley and the northern edge of Little Capitan Valley. Its elevation is 6,365 feet above sea level. Access to Hunts Mesa is not through the general entrance of the park but rather through the sand dunes northeast of the town of Kayenta, Arizona.
On October 16, 1984, an United States Air Force B-52 bomber collided with Hunts Mesa and crashed, killing two of the seven crewmen.
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Monument Valley (Navajo: Tse Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.
Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best known films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West.
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December 5th, 2011
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Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your tie for a 3d place win in the Hiking Panoramic Photo contest! VLF
Jennifer White
Congratulations on your 3rd place tie win in the Hiking Panoramic Photos and Art Contest! Submit your image to the Panoramas group for a feature!
Nadine and Bob Johnston
.... Like the subject, technique, composition, and color... Congratulations, Today it was chosen to be Published in the Internet publication ARTISTS NEWS.... Anyone can Just Highlight this link ---- http://bit.ly/RVPlpf - Use Ctl-C to copy and Ctl-V ---- to put it into the Browser Address, to view the publication. You can then, Tweet, FB, and email, etc a copy of the publication, to just anyone you feel would be interested. Happy Promoting! :-)
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Congratulations, on your Feature in Navajo Nation... Thanks for Submitting this to the group. Fav
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