White Pocket Butte

The highlight of this day was this remarkable Sandstone Curtain. It is very thin and fragile. How long has it been in this formation, one wonders. I have seen a lot of lace rock, but never something quite like this. It appears that a thin band of more-compacted sand forms and when the material is compressed into stone, that section becomes a more resistant thin band and so erodes more slowly.

This feature gained fame recently when it was used by Apple as the basis for the screensaver on the iPhone.

White Pocket Butte. We climbed it via the right-hand skyline. Class 3+ or 4- if one finds the easiest way.

A rose.

This sort of coating on the sandstone gives the White Pocket area its name.

The swan.

Heagonal or pentagonal forms are common in the Navajo sandstone. Here the small Moki marbles have rolled into the seams, highlighting them.