Dead Horse Point near Moab, Utah

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Aerial view of the Dead Horse Point mesa. It is over 2000 feet above the Colorado River that winds through the bottom of the Canyon. In America's early history cowboys would use the plateau to trap wild horses, corralling them in and then separating out the good stock from the bad (broom-tails). As the story goes a large group of these broom-tails were left unable to escape and died of thirst, ergo the name "Dead Horse Point"

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Dead Horse Point, Utah. On the other side of this stone wall is a drop of several hundred feet. The bottom of the canyon is over 2000 feet down passing several rocky mesas (plateaus) before reaching the Colorado River.

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There was a short rain storm just before sunrise causing the color in the rocks to become vibrant after which the sun burst through the clouds.