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Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9969] ’Gorges de Daluis.’ Being at the bottom of a deep, near-vertical canyon is an impressing experience. The Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France), carved in red slate, is one of the most spectacular canyons in Europe. If you accept wet feet, you can hike its complete length without difficulty. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 01920] 'Stone avalanche.' The deep Tinée valley is not very stable and stone avalanches occur frequently. This one blocked the route near Isola just minutes before. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 02031] 'Mercantour, Tinée/Vionène: red schist.' In a small area surrounding the confluence of Vionène and Tinée the purple-coloured bedrock amazes visitors. It is a schist dating from the Permian period, when the earth's atmosphere contained oxygen for the first time in its history, turning iron in minerals red. Beauty is not the only result, fertility as well: around perched village Roure it weathers into a rich purple soil. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 02034] 'Mercantour, Tinée/Vionène: red schist.' In a small area surrounding the confluence of Vionène and Tinée the purple-coloured bedrock amazes visitors. It is a schist dating from the Permian period, when the earth's atmosphere contained oxygen for the first time in its history, turning iron in minerals red. Beauty is not the only result, fertility as well: around perched village Roure it weathers into a rich purple soil. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2721] 'Examples of karst.' North of the Col de la Madone de Gorbio, the scene shifts from green and rich in flowers to dry and barren. The water as it seeps through has eaten away at the limestone, leaving behind razor-sharp fins. A textbook example of a ‘karst’ landscape. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.COTEDAZUR 2726] 'High above Menton.' From the Cime de Baudon, the highest point on our walk around Gorbio, the view is even more complete. Now the coastline is also included, while at the other side the Alps rise high. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7689] 'Holes in the rock.' Some walls are decorated with complicated patterns of indentations, holes and caves. It looks like a group of crazy sculptors with a strange sense of humour have been at work (Paria Canyon).
Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3879] 'Side wave.' I walk on in a side wave, a whole network of waves, some narrow and some half submerged. ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).
Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7702] 'Our diner table.' The table on which we eat our dry dinner comes straight off a Seventies album cover of the symphonic rock group Yes (camping wild in the Paria Canyon).
[FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9969]
’Gorges de Daluis.’

Being at the bottom of a deep, near-vertical canyon is an impressing experience. The Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France), carved in red slate, is one of the most spectacular canyons in Europe. If you accept wet feet, you can hike its complete length without difficulty. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9969] ’Gorges de Daluis.’ Being at the bottom of a deep, near-vertical canyon is an impressing experience. The Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France), carved in red slate, is one of the most spectacular canyons in Europe. If you accept wet feet, you can hike its complete length without difficulty. Photo Paul Smit.
[FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9969]
’Gorges de Daluis.’

Being at the bottom of a deep, near-vertical canyon is an impressing experience. The Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France), carved in red slate, is one of the most spectacular canyons in Europe. If you accept wet feet, you can hike its complete length without difficulty. Photo Paul Smit.
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