Friday's jaunt to Cedar Breaks National Monument

A bit of the huge amphitheater rim at 'the Breaks
 

DUCK LAKE, UT - - Friday's adventure was planned as a ride to Cedar Breaks NM. The monument was called "the place where the rocks are sliding down all the time" by the Southern Paiute.  Later, settlers misidentified the juniper trees as cedars and called the steep, heavily eroded terrain breaks...leading to the eventual name Cedar Breaks.  The above photo is just a small part of the 3-mile wide amphitheater sculpted by erosion from snow, wind, rain and ice plus the movement of an active fault. 

Cedar Brakes is located at 10,000ft altitude...you might heed the sign

 

Farther down the mountain, hundreds of sheep were out grazing