House on Fire, UT

House on Fire, Mule Canyon, UT

Today I paid my $2.00 for a permit to hike Mule Canyon.  It is an easy hike of about 1 1/4 miles to the first ruin which is called House on Fire.  As you can see in the above photo, the name fits!  You do have to catch it under the correct lighting conditions.  Since I didn't know how difficult a hike it would be I left early and reached the site at around 9:00AM.  At that time the colors were not impressive:

House on Fire at 9:00AM

I took a few photos then continued up the canyon to the next ruin.  There are a number of them over the 6 mile length of Mule Canyon, but I stopped after the second at about 2.4 miles in.  I returned to House on Fire at a good time.  The sun reflects of the nearby canyon walls & lights the rocks above the ruin.  Later in the day the sun hits the cliff directly, and washes out the effect.  10:30AM is a pretty good time to shoot.

I also shot some photos along the canyon as well as the second ruin.  I'll post them to LakeshoreImages once 1&1 gets my website fixed.  I called them again today & the answer is "We have our highest level working on the problem." With the site down for 5 days, I am beginning to wonder how high that level actually is.

After the canyon I was wiped - not that much of a climb, but it is in full sun, in the high 80's, and very dry.  I drank a liter of water on the hike & was still thirsty when I got back to the car.  Came back to the campground, did laundry, and did nothing for the rest of the day.  

Tomorrow I'm heading to Moab for a couple of days.

Till then -