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Welcome to Utah!
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Looking back at colorful Colorado. Couldn't they put some of that color in their sign?
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Leaving I-70 near the tiny pile of wreckage known as the "town" of Cisco, Utah's eastern void sprawls out, arid and barren.
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The Colorado Riverway (UT-128) begins with some lush pastrures and grazing horses.
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UT-128 takes a name for itself
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The Colorado River looking brown beneath the gray sky and red cliffs
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The red cliffs are more vibrant in sunshine
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An amazing wall hems in the roadway.
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The river carved through these formidable walls eons ago, and the road was built on the narrow river bank
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Mesas along the Riverway
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UT-128 rolls through the widened valley
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The road rounds a bend in the river, and Fisher Towers come into view
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The clouds give the oddly-rippled fins of Fisher Towers and eerie look
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The Titan stands tall over the group of bizarre fins known as Fisher Towers
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Welcome to Fisher Towers
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From the base of Fisher Towers, a look back to the east along the Colorado Riverway.
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A small wall in the front of Fisher Towers, with the Riverway behind
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The Towers themselves
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A tall butte
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Another butte, as the clouds begin to break
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Roadside rocks under late-day sunshine
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Huge wall ahead
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You feel very small rolling along under these cliffs
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The Riverway takes you past more and more mesas and cliffs in this 42-mile ride.
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Solid
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A gap in the wall
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The cornerstone
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The streaks that stain the walls are known as "desert varnish"
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The River
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A final look at the Riverway, with Moab just ahead
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