Derrick

This is one of the things that I like about the desert environment... it really is hard to not find some kind of hand of man out there due to the lack of forests, rain, moss, etc., plus all of the resource extraction that's part of the DNA of the American desert. This derrick (at least I think that's what they call this) is just a few hundred meters from the spot of my previous M+N posting, a couple of weeks ago, from the edge of Canyonlands in March.

Speaking of which, I'm seriously behind in my image processing and I apologize for my sub-optimal NPN participation. Hats off to those that manage to post here and get their work done, probably best accomplished by not producing so much more raw material. We're headed over to the eastern Sierra tomorrow morning for six more days of image backlog.

This derrick is about five meters high and hangs out over a 250 meter high cliff. I did not climb that ladder on the right side. I'd guess that this dates from the uranium mining days of the early 1950s.