Hiking Buckskin Gulch, Photo

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Hiking Buckskin Gulch

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Latitude: 37° 1' 1.74" N, Longitude: 112° 0' 6.48" W, Coord: 37.01715°, -112.0018°
Filed under: Arizona, Panoramas, Photo of the Day, Photography on 6/9/2008

This is a 360-degree panorama showing, in a single image, a hiker in Buckskin Gulch both coming and going. I set my camera on a tripod in the middle of the trail through Buckskin Gulch, leveled it with a bubble level, and spun it in a complete circle taking sixteen photos roughly evenly spaced as I did so. In two of the photographs I set the camera’s self-timer and jumped into the picture myself. Later, the images were then “stitched” together on a the computer with panoramic imaging software, resulting in the single image you see. Click on it to see it larger!

Buckskin Gulch hiker. A hiker moves through the deep narrow passages of Buckskin Gulch, a slot canyon cut deep into sandstone by years of river-induced erosion. In some places the Buckskin Gulch narrows are only about 15 feet wide but several hundred feet high, blocking sunlight. Flash floods are dangerous as there is no escape once into the Buckskin Gulch slot canyons. This is a panorama made of sixteen individual photos. Buckskin Gulch, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA.
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Location: Buckskin Gulch, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA