Here are five canyons on Cedar Mesa in Southeast Utah — Grand Gulch, Slickhorn, Johns, Fish, and Owl — walked and camped and described by a naturalist who was also a fine draftswoman. Zwinger addresses the geology and the plants and the seeps, and the Ancestral Puebloan sites she comes on in the alcoves, and she does it without the swagger the canyon-country genre often carries. Her drawings are throughout. The book came out in 1978, before the crowds, and it reads now as a record of what walking that country was like when it was easy to go a week without seeing anyone. Which you still can, but I’m mum as to where.
Wind in the Rock