Ranger Sarah view the snow covered Bryce Canyon. After the rock was laid down, uplift began as the he Farallon Plate was forced underneath the North American Plate. Over the last several million years the Farallon plate began to break apart allowing heat to rise and elevate the Colorado Plateau to its current height.
Ranger Sarah with another spectacular view. The uplifted Bryce’s rocks eventually reached the “goldilocks zone” - the perfect elevation for the forces of nature to create Bryce’s hoodoos. Now weathering and erosion can go to work.
Ranger Sarah gets her first view from the Piracy Point trail. Here she looks down into Swamp Canyon and the Sheep Creek drainage system to the north and the Willis Creek drainage system that collects run-off south from here.
— at Bryce Canyon National Park.