Our team failed to enter Coyote Buttes South because of a snow
storm, and thus we made a side trip to Paria Rimrocks, which are
just a few miles away from the dirt road to Coyote Buttes South.
Although I visited Paris Rimrocks before, this time I found a new
perspective to photograph the hoodoos. In some pictures (the first
two in this page) I used a fallen cap of a hoodoo as the foreground.
I was told that the cap of the hoodoo is a piece of hard rock,
serving the function of protecting the hoodoo from rapid erosion.
After the cap rock is gone, the sandstone will quickly disintegrate
.
