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 09/16/2009 07:23:18 AM · #1

The White Hoodoo

Camel-like hoodoos such as this one are relatively common among hoodoos in general. They likely begin as two closely spaced hard rocks laying on a soft, flat sedimentary deposit. In this case the hoodoo that eventually became the hump formed first, long before the second one that eventually became the camel's neck. Erosion around the two rocks slowly dissolves surrounding stone to form capstones for two separate and growing hoodoos. The capstone for one of the hoodoos then gets dislodged by some natural process so that the newly forming hoodoo pedestal is now unprotected from the elements and erosion rounds it's top to take on the appearance of a camel's hump.

Often, as is the case with The White Camel, the hoodoo is below a cliff edge in a grotto high up on an arid badlands formation. Above the badlands you can't see it until you come right up to the edge of a steep cliff and see it below. Your task then becomes finding a way to scramble down into the grotto to photograph it.

This picture was taken just after sunrise. To get it I had to 4WD to a remote location on a very challenging "road" and sleep in my vehicle so that I could hike to it's location and be there at sunrise. I'd found this hoodoo on a previous exploration of the area.

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