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This is the kind of place where the term 'flash flood' really comes to mind. Although it was hot, dusty and dry on this early summer day, in your mind you can just picture a wall of water coming down the arroyo and sweeping you away! It wasn't likely on that day in Palo Duro Canyon (part of Palo Duro State Park) hiking out to LighthouseFriends.com Rock but sometimes your imagination takes over especially if you are hiking alone with no one else in sight! I didn't appreciate the clouds at the time but several hours later on my way back from Lighthouse Rock I think I would have given anything for some clouds and another bottle of water! You wonder how anyone survived in these areas 'back in the day'. Palo Duro Canyon, located near Amarillo TX is the biggest canyon no one has heard of and the second largest canyon in the country after the Grand Canyon. The Canyon is 120 miles long, as much as 20 miles wide, and has a maximum depth of more than 800 feet. Its elevation at the rim is 3,500 f...

Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...